change default chat.log location and tone of prompts

heed

@@ -1,12 +1,17 @@
 #!/bin/sh -e
 
+chatlog="/var/log/bunkchat/chat.log"
+
 clear
 
-figlet -f future heed - bunkchat
+echo "╻ ╻┏━╸┏━╸╺┳┓         ┏┓ ╻ ╻┏┓╻╻┏ ┏━╸╻ ╻┏━┓╺┳╸"
+echo "┣━┫┣╸ ┣╸  ┃┃   ╺━╸   ┣┻┓┃ ┃┃┗┫┣┻┓┃  ┣━┫┣━┫ ┃ "
+echo "╹ ╹┗━╸┗━╸╺┻┛         ┗━┛┗━┛╹ ╹╹ ╹┗━╸╹ ╹╹ ╹ ╹ "
+
 echo "#######################################################################"
-echo "# Take heed, $USER! This is a group chat with everyone on the server! #"
+echo " Take heed, $USER! This is a group chat with everyone on the server!"
-echo "# You can view earlier chat with 'scry' or 'less /srv/bunkchat.txt'   #"
+echo " You can view earlier chat with 'scry' or 'less /srv/bunkchat.txt'"
 echo "#######################################################################"
 echo
 
-tail -f /srv/bunkchat.txt
+tail -f $chatlog

proclaim

@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
-#!/bin/bash -e
+#!/bin/sh -e
 
 # make username uppercase
 username=$(echo "$USER" | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]')
-timezone="America/New_York"
+timezone="UTC"
-declare prompt
+chatlog="/var/log/bunkchat/chat.log"
+prompt=""
 
 makeSlug () {
     # make time and date
@@ -19,11 +20,14 @@ clear
 
 while true
 do
-	figlet -f future proclaim - bunkchat
+    echo "┏━┓┏━┓┏━┓┏━╸╻  ┏━┓╻┏┳┓         ┏┓ ╻ ╻┏┓╻╻┏ ┏━╸╻ ╻┏━┓╺┳╸"
-	echo "You may view old chat with 'scry', heathen."
+    echo "┣━┛┣┳┛┃ ┃┃  ┃  ┣━┫┃┃┃┃   ╺━╸   ┣┻┓┃ ┃┃┗┫┣┻┓┃  ┣━┫┣━┫ ┃ "
-	echo "-------------------------------------------"
+    echo "╹  ╹┗╸┗━┛┗━╸┗━╸╹ ╹╹╹ ╹         ┗━┛┗━┛╹ ╹╹ ╹┗━╸╹ ╹╹ ╹ ╹ "
-	read -r -p "speak to the server: " text
+    echo "You may view old chat with 'scry'!"
+    echo "----------------------------------"
+    printf "speak to the server: " >&2
+    read -r text
     makeSlug
-	echo "${prompt}: $text" >> /srv/bunkchat.txt
+    echo "${prompt}: $text" >> $chatlog
     clear
 done

scry

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 #!/bin/sh -e
+chatlog="/var/log/bunkchat/chat.log"
 
-less /srv/bunkchat.txt
+less $chatlog