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[charlieholder]

I'm not 100% on the vocabulary to articulate what I need, so please bear with me.

I inherited a server at work. I login through SSH and as soon as I get done typing in the password, it displays the last login date/time and a large ASCII drawing. I have tried looking in a number of places, but I cannot for the life of me figure out where this drawing is being pulled from. Reading around online leads me to looking at directories/files such as /etc/profile, /etc/profile.d, and ~/.bash_profile. I don't see anything related to this drawing.

Anyone up for helping me through finding where this comes from?

Edited by charlieholder, 08 February 2013 - 01:39 PM.

[Christian F.]

That's the fortune cookie.
If you run man fortune in the shell, you'll get the necessary information on how to use it. fortune -f lists the files used by fortune to show the cookies from.

Edited by Christian F., 08 February 2013 - 01:49 PM.

[kicken]

Check /etc/motd.  That file is displayed after login.  If the drawing is not in there it is likely being generated by a program that is run during the profile setup.

[charlieholder]

If you run man fortune in the shell, you'll get the necessary information on how to use it.

[root@localhost ~]# man fortune
No manual entry for fortune

Check /etc/motd.

That's it! Thanks for the help!

Edited by charlieholder, 09 February 2013 - 10:21 AM.