Reason #465132 to Love FBSD....

Xian ian at codepad.net
Tue May 23 17:45:06 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 23 May 2006 17:32, Mark Ovens wrote:
> Talking about fortune(6), why has it stopped working? The binary (or is
> it a perl script?) seems to have disappeared on my system - 6-STABLE,
> although I'm sure it disappeared sometime whilst running 5-STABLE. The
> fortune data files are there (though looking at the timestamps, they're
> out of date), just no binary/script.
<snip>

It seems to be here on mine
[ian at penbpc1ins5:~] %which fortune
/usr/games/fortune
[ian at penbpc1ins5:~] %fortune
SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 - Dec 21)
        You are optimistic and enthusiastic.  You have a reckless
        tendency to rely on luck since you lack talent.  The majority
        of Sagittarians are drunks or dope fiends or both.  People
        laugh at you a great deal.
[ian at penbpc1ins5:~] %uname -r
6.1-RELEASE
[ian at penbpc1ins5:~] %ll /usr/games/fortune
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    18K May 19 01:37 /usr/games/fortune
[ian at penbpc1ins5:~] %file /usr/games/fortune
/usr/games/fortune: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 
(FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
[ian at penbpc1ins5:~] %

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/Xian

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