Fortune

[Lowell Gilbert]

Scott W <wegster at mindcore.net> writes:

> Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> 
> >Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> writes:
> >
> >
> >>On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:29:44AM -0500, Chuck PUP Payne wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Strange question, I have notice that in 5.1 there is no more fortune. Can
> >>>you tell me where I can get it. Thanks.
> >>>
> >>Install the games/freebsd-games port.
> >>
> >
> >No, fortune isn't in there.  It's still in the main tree.  Is it maybe
> >being installed to somewhere different?  [Doesn't look like it from a
> >quick Makefile check, but I may well have missed something...]

> Is installed on my (5.1 through 5.2-CURRENT) system, in:
> /usr/games/fortune - ELF binary
> /usr/share/games/fortune/ - directory for furtune data files
> 
> Is /usr/games in your PATH?  (Unsure if this is the normal location
> for it or not under FreeBSD, although IMHO it still belongs in a bin
> directory...)

It's the normal location -- that's where it's been since it entered
FreeBSD in the first place, back around 1994.  /usr/games is the
traditional BSD place from well before that.