Re: [PLUG] Some MOTD show someone had WAAAY too much time

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 09:03:33AM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote:
>   [16 lines, 92 words, 511 characters]  Top characters: etornl\ni
> 
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 12:04:09PM -0400, George Gallen wrote:
> > Really now....
> > 
> > Did this person actually get any work done?!?
> > 
> > MOTD from Redhat......
> 
> I'm guessing what you think is a "MOTD from Redhat" is really just
> your .bashrc file calling fortune(6).  A quick search on google
> suggests the song was around at least as early as 1992, which would
> predate the 1.0 release of Redhat by 2 years.
> 
> I couldn't find the author, but chances are it was written by some
> bored Computer Science student.

Nice researching.

No need to speculate on whether it's fortune or not:

    jeff@astra:fortunes $ cd /usr/share/games/fortunes
    jeff@astra:fortunes $ grep "No plain fanfold paper" *u8
    songs-poems.u8:No plain fanfold paper could hold that fractal Puff --
    jeff@astra:fortunes $

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