Make your Debian Linux and FreeBSD terminal /
console display daily verse from KJV Bible
Since I am a Christian and I want to daily be in touch with the
Holy Scriptures and I am most
of the time spending on my Linux system. I have came to the
conclusion that it's beneficial to
have a daily bible displaying everytime after I login in console or
terminal in X.
Therefore I thought it might be helpful to somebody out there who
would wish to have the same
on his Linux / FreeBSD machine.
Here is how to set bible quote to appear everytime after login in
Debian Linux:
First install the verse program through:
# apt-get install verse
Next if you want to make the verse display global for the system
put
if [ -f /usr/bin/verse ]; then
echo
/usr/bin/verse
fi
in /etc/bash.bashrc
On the other hand if you'd like to make it local for your account
or a set number of accounts on your system append
if [ -f /usr/bin/verse ]; then
echo
/usr/bin/verse
fi
to your ~/.bashrc as well as to the home directories of the users
you'd like to display a bible verse.
If you decide to do that be aware that your login via sftp won't
work anymore.
Every time you attempt to login you'll experience the error
message:
"Received message too long". However that ain't a real problem for
me
since I use my system as a desktop and don't sftp or ssh remotely
to it or if I
do it's really often in that cases to enable my sftp logins again I
temporary
comment the above code from all the files where I have it.
On FreeBSD the same is achieved a bit differently.
Here is how to install it in FreeBSD:
First you need to install it as a fortune module, because in FreeBSD bible quotes
are only available via the good old fortune program:
cd /usr/ports/misc/fortune-mod-bible;
make install clean
Next open:
the /etc/profile file and insert in the end of it:
echo
/usr/games/fortune /usr/local/share/games/fortune/bible
After your next login your FreeBSD should be quoting a bible
quotation after each and every login. What is different with
Debian's verse program is that verse keeps displaying one
exact
quote of the bible during every login during the whole day,
where in FreeBSD the fortune-mod-bible does visualize a
different
bible quote during every next login.