Randomizing the MOTD

[Nailz]

How do I set my MOTD to be random?

I have a list of messages that I'd like to display...funny quips, sayings, etc. But I don't want to go in and change it all the time. I want to supply a list and have it randomized? Any ideas or programs out there to do it?

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$> cd /pub
$> more beer

[Death on Wheels]

fortune

Do a search for gfortune on Freshmeat, then do a search for just fortune and you'll get a bunch of fortune files.

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Kurt Weber
Shell scripts? Shell scripts? We don't NEED no stinkin' shell scripts!
White, heterosexual, middle-class, and proud!
I've never understood why Bill Gates would name his company after his penis.

[Muzzafarath]

Or you could write a script that would be executed, say every 10 minutes with cron, and put random stuff into /etc/motd with it.

[Death on Wheels]

Or, you could combine the two:
fortune > /etc/motd

Make it a cron job as root or else you won't be able to write to /etc/motd

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Kurt Weber
Shell scripts? Shell scripts? We don't NEED no stinkin' shell scripts!
White, heterosexual, middle-class, and proud!
I've never understood why Bill Gates would name his company after his penis.