How to set-up nice welcome messages?

Extracted from Web submission
Tip provided by Isaac Tsalicoglou
It's not actually a tip, it's just a nice cool idea
that will make every login a bit special. Go to
http://www.filewatcher.org and search for the keyword
"fortune". Download the version that applies to your
system (tar.gz or rpm) and install it. Locate where the
ELF executable fortune has been placed (usually /usr/games)
and then load the file /etc/profile on your editor and add
the following last line to the file:

/usr/games/fortune

(or the path where fortune resides).
This will cause a random "fortune cookie" (a quote)
to appear every time a user logs in. Alternatively, you
can place that line in an independent user's ~/.profile
so only he will have this feature enabled.

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Tip recorded : 16-05-1999 21:43:42
HTML page last changed : 27-07-1999 20:09:30