• bob_wiley@lemmy.world
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        Reading the back and forth it sounds like it only uses it if it’s installed. But you can also turn it off in the ansible.cfg. Still seems like kind of a silly default behavior, as cowsay is a novelty.

        I met with the architect of Ansible last year. I should have asked him for the backstory on that.

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          I’m guessing there’s an engineer or higher-up who is very much attached to the cowsay readout and they refuse to allow it to be Easter egg’d

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    1 year ago

    Heh, I just remove fortune | cowsay from my login script a few weeks ago. Now I want to add it back.