fortune is distributed with FreeBSD in the games directory. You can install from sysinstall or manually by mounting your CD, cd to the binary games directory and install: cat games.?? | tar --unlink -zxpf - -C / usr/share/man/man6/fortune.6.gz usr/share/man/cat6/fortune.6.gz usr/share/games/fortune usr/games/fortune execute "/usr/games/fortune". --Mark.