How do i remove the random quotes?

[farley99]

How do i remove the random quotes, such as....?
Last login: Tue Aug 5 10:32:34 2003 from 172.42.225.87 Linux 2.4.20.

It's clever, but is it art?

Last login: Tue Aug 5 10:33:36 2003 from 172.42.225.87
Linux 2.4.20.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
-- Saint Jerome

Last login: Tue Aug 5 10:34:26 2003 from 172.42.225.87 Linux 2.4.20.

"The last time somebody said, `I find I can write much better with a
word processor.', I replied, `They used to say the same thing about
drugs.'
-- Roy Blount, Jr.

 

[clonny2]

Is this part of your login?

Look at /etc/rc.d/rc.local, look to see if anything gets added into /etc/issue.

Also look at the scripts /etc/rc.d/init.d.
Type grep "/etc/issue" * and see if any files write to /etc/issue.

This will get you started.

The program that is used to generate the quotes is a program called fortune. You can try making fortune not executable, or uninstall it.

>---------------------------------------Lawrence Feldman
SR. QA. Engineer SNAP Appliance
lfeldman@snapappliance.com

 

[usige]

As clonny2 stated look for fortune in your startup scripts. Since this is happening after the last login info look in /etc/profile or files in /etc/profile.d/ . It might also be in your personal shell config files (i.e. .profile, .bash_profile, etc.). When you find it either comment it out or remove it.