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Impulse The Fox
Asked: 2018-05-05 01:05:55 +0800 CST

Custom motd in /etc/update-motd.d/20-fortune-cowsay only working partially

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I have tried to create a custom motd on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I've found that there is a /etc/update-motd.d directory with a few files. I've seen the pattern of [00-99]-[name]So I've added my own file called 20-fortune-cowsay. It looks like this

#!/bin/bash
echo "TEST"
fortune | cowsay

but the motd only looks like this

...
TEST
...

And I don't see the output of fortune | cowsay. Also, echo "$(fortune | cowsay)", didn't help. What am I missing?

lts fortune 16.04 motd cowsay

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Change your script to look like this:

    #!/bin/bash
export PATH="/usr/games:$PATH"
fortune | cowsay

    "fortune" and "cowsay" are considered games by ubuntu and those are not in the default system path.

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