Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 05 Jul 1996 15:04:49 +0200 | From | Alexandre Maret <> | Subject | Re: /proc/thanks (Was: Boot messages) |
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Todd Graham Lewis wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Jul 1996, Andrew C. Esh wrote: > > > we need > > Jason> /proc/thanks, or a replacement for fortune that spews > > Jason> credit for one random Linux contributor. Why not? -- > > > > Sure. I'll do you one better: Add famous URLs, FAQ info (like ncftp > > does), Did you know ..., and other useful stuff. Might be kinda fun to > > get some random infobytes evey time fortune runs. > > Why this discussion is in the kernel list, I sincerely do not > understand. Fortune libraries are trivially easy to make, hence I don't > think (I can't believe I'm saying this) that recreating fortune in the > kernel is a good idea.
If you make an external cookie file, it might not be distributed with the kernel. /proc/thanks shouldn't give "famous URLs, FAQ info" etc... but it could give only "John Smith - Random Card driver - email"... This way, credits are into the kernel.... without making it bigger (because some credits already appears in the boot messages).
We could also create a fortune file which would be distributed with the kernel, but not included in the binary form. Then, we add a
fortune /usr/src/linux/kernelcookie
in a rc file. Just remember that everybody doesn't have the kernel source tree installed.
alex
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