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Fortune Mini-HOWTO (english)

+ +

Walter Harms

Version 0.01, 19.05.2004 +

+How to use use fortune to generate cookies. +

1. Introduction

+ +

When a user logs into a system normally the /etc/motd is displayed. ( You can +disable this by creating the file ~/.hushlogin.) You will be greeted +by something like ''welcome to 127.0.0.1''. That is boring.

Here comes ''fortune'' to the rescue. The package comes with 3 programs: +fortune,strfile and unstr.

+ +

2. Usage of fortune, strfile and unstr

+ +

The programs have clear distinguished jobs: presentation, assembly and +disassembly of the fortune databases.

+ +

2.1 Fortune +

+ +

fortune is the presenter program. A simple application is to call the +program in the crontab and modify the /etc/motd. e.g.: +

+ */10 * * * * /usr/bin/fortune >/etc/motd
+
+To select a given database with quotes simply add the database as argument.
+
+ */10 * * * * /usr/bin/fortune myquotes >/etc/motd
+

+ +You can also specify more than one database file. Then fortune will consider +both files equally often. +

+
+> fortune  myquotes  startrek
+

+ +Some people like some quotes more than others. So your can manipulate the +equilibrium by adding probabilities. +

+
+> fortune  90% myquotes  10% startrek
+

+ +fortune has some additional command line switches but its beyond the +scope of this document to explain them. check the man page instead.

+ +

2.2 generating a fortune database +

+ +

Now we come to terms. Pick a list of quotes. There are several sources. +Of cause the Internet will provide you with a long list. Choose quotes +you like they will appear regularly now. Collect the quotes in one file. +Every quote separated with a line containing a single % e.g.: +

+quote 1
+%
+quote 2
+%
+quote 3
+%
+quote 5
+

+ +This is not a very effective way. Therefor is the strfile program.It will +process the ASCII-file and add a binary helper. The <myquotes> will +accompanied by <myquotes>.dat . +

+
+> strfile myquotes
+

+ +The <myquotes>.dat will by copied into the directory where the datafiles are stored. +This is usually /usr/share/fortune. Check the installation with: +

+>fortune myquotes
+

+ +

2.3 unstr +

+ +

This is what the man-page says: +

+The purpose of unstr is to undo the work of strfile.  It prints out the
+strings contained in the file source_file in the order that they are
+listed in the header file source_file.dat to standard output.  It is 
+possible to create sorted versions of input files by using -o when strfile
+is run and then using unstr to dump them out in the table order.
+

+ +

3. other files to have fun with

+ +

An other possible target is .signature. +Any selfrespecting mailprogram will add that to an outgoing mail.

+ +

4. remarks

+ +

The patchnames mentioned here are based on the actual fortune package. +Distribution may change the place to somewhere.

Beside fortune there are several other programs that select random +quotes from a database.

Be carefull when choosing quotes. There are people who take them serious like: +

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+walter@linux:~/bericht/fortune> fortune myquotes
+"You  have the right to remain silent, but I wouldn't encourage you to do
+ so.  Anything you say will be taken down, altered to my satisfaction and
+ used in a court of law to send you down for a good many years!"
+

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