Getting fortune to run when opening a terminal



Hi all

Under Slackware, whenever I would open up konsole (a terminal app), so a fortune would be displayed before the typical Bash prompt.

Is there a way of setting it up under Debian so that it can do the same thing?

TIA

Andy

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