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From: Faried Nawaz <fn@uidaho.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [Dumb question about Fortune?]
Date: 14 Nov 1995 20:17:23 -0800
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In article <484g3j$h4n@csra2.csranet.com> browning@browning.csranet.com (Charles Browning) writes:

$ I have looked at the config files until I am blind and I can't seem to 
$ figure out how to stop the fortune messages upon login?  No excuses, I 
$ have been using Linux and am a newbie to FreeBSD.  Any help is appreciated.

edit ~/.login.

it's not a freebsd thing; it's a unix familiarity thing.