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LordHatrus
How does one customize the login quote-thingies?
You know, the quote things you get when you first login, without X and everything.
google wasn't much help to me, due to my not knowing what they're called.

Yay. It feels good to be back on neowin after a half-year hiatus...
edit: Sweet jesus, my PM inbox is HUUUUUUGE....
ichi
You can use /etc/motd to place text that will be shown when loggin. Also /etc/issue has something to do with that kind of messages, but I'm not sure about when it's displayed exactly.
zeta
It depends. Usually, it's done with the "fortune" program, and ~/.login will run fortune as the last thing it does before you enter the login shell.
LordHatrus
Yay! I found the answer to my easy question.
Files are found in /usr/share/games/fortune.
and the only other thing to do is edit the script in /etc/profile.d/

Thanks, zeta, for the name of the app.
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