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codergeek42
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 Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 8:15 pm Post subject: [HOW-TO] Get a nice linux logo with console login. |
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If you're like me, I'm pretty sure that you don't like that the "computer-name login:" text comes right after the startup messages. I was ecently made aware of a program called linux_logo which give a nice ASCII art linux logo. Here's what you do:
1. Download,compile, and install linux-logo by using the all-powerful 'emerge' command: | Code: | | # emerge linux-logo |
2. Add it to the default runlevel, like so: | Code: | | # rc-update add linux-logo default |
3. Change the config file if you want, to show different text, or a different logo, etc. | Code: | | # nano /etc/conf.d/linux-logo |
(I use nano both to stay consistent with the manual, and to attempt to be neutral witht the vi/emacs flamewars) I myself prefer not to show the uptime, as you have to restart linux-logo to change it, so I remove the #O from the format string. I also like to use the "-L 5 -f" )(-f = cover fullscreeen, -L 5 = use a purple-on-black ASCII "Gentoo" logo) options.
4. Now, whenever you login in console mode, you should see the Linux logo (either the word "Linux" with the red italicized i and Tux, or the Gentoo ASCII art) followed by some system stats (the tty#, computer name, kernel version, some hardware info, etc.).
I hope this is useful to someone!
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furkan
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| Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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thanks for that how-to  |
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codergeek42
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| Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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You're welcome. i just thought that some othrs woud find it mildly useful, even if it is pretty simple/straightforward. 
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| Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2004 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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| great one. thanks. |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 12:46 am Post subject: |
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Thank you
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strestout1
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| Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 2:47 am Post subject: |
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| just tried it and love it, except in my version, the logo ur talking about is -L 3 not 5. |
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codergeek42
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| strestout1 wrote: | | just tried it and love it, except in my version, the logo ur talking about is -L 3 not 5. |
is -L 3 the one with the ASCII penguin and "Linux" with a cool curvy 'i'? I like that one, too..but I always switch it back to the purple-on-black "Gentoo"...
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strestout1
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| Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 3:39 am Post subject: |
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| codergeek42 wrote: | | strestout1 wrote: | | just tried it and love it, except in my version, the logo ur talking about is -L 3 not 5. |
is -L 3 the one with the ASCII penguin and "Linux" with a cool curvy 'i'? I like that one, too..but I always switch it back to the purple-on-black "Gentoo"... |
no. -L 3 is the black back with purple Gentoo letters. -L 4 is grey back with red Gentoo letters. |
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codergeek42
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| strestout1 wrote: | | codergeek42 wrote: | | strestout1 wrote: | | just tried it and love it, except in my version, the logo ur talking about is -L 3 not 5. |
is -L 3 the one with the ASCII penguin and "Linux" with a cool curvy 'i'? I like that one, too..but I always switch it back to the purple-on-black "Gentoo"... |
no. -L 3 is the black back with purple Gentoo letters. -L 4 is grey back with red Gentoo letters. |
Proof that I /still/ have no idea what I'm doing... 
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yoyoned
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| Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Looks like Slackware. |
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| Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 12:38 pm Post subject: |
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umm, some explanation as to what FORMAT and FORMATNET mean?
what are valid values for OPTIONS? what do they mean?
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codergeek42
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| kamagurka wrote: | umm, some explanation as to what FORMAT and FORMATNET mean?
what are valid values for OPTIONS? what do they mean? |
If I understand correctly, FORMAT is for login prompts for local logins, and FORMATNET is for remote logins, such as SSH and what-not. OPTIONS are the command-line things passwed to the linux-log program to actually make the login prompt like that.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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And if you want to get rid of the linux-logo on bootup -- rc-update del linux-logo isn't enough. Delete /etc/issue and it will be gone.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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| what...no ANSI art?? |
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sleepingsun
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I know that is old topic i just install this linux-logo and works fine but have problem with uptime not showing anything ?
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I doubt this actually works anymore, this thread was written 14 years ago 
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| Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2018 5:21 am Post subject: |
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| bunder wrote: | | I doubt this actually works anymore, this thread was written 14 years ago |
Works fine, including uptime info |
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| dmpogo wrote: | | bunder wrote: | | I doubt this actually works anymore, this thread was written 14 years ago |
Works fine, including uptime info |
and how to configure that i have uptime info ?
Its show UPTIME but now stat ... other things abot cpu speed memory kernel works fine ...
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| Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2018 4:32 am Post subject: |
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| sleepingsun wrote: | | dmpogo wrote: | | bunder wrote: | | I doubt this actually works anymore, this thread was written 14 years ago |
Works fine, including uptime info |
and how to configure that i have uptime info ?
Its show UPTIME but now stat ... other things abot cpu speed memory kernel works fine ... |
Not sure, it worked out of the box for me. Really it just rewrites /etc/issue - what is written there ? And does 'uptime' works from command line for you ?
And the last thing will be to check syntax of /etc/conf.d/linux-logo |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 11:31 am Post subject: |
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/etc/conf.d/linux-logo
| Code: | # Seq Description Output
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
# ## #
# #B Bogomips 374.37
# #C Compiled Date #47 Fri Jan 8 10:37:09 EST 1999
# #E User Text My Favorite Linux Distribution
# Displayed with -t
# #H Hostname deranged
# #L Load average Load average 0.04, 0.01, 0.01
# #M Megahertz 188Mhz
# where supported
# #N Number of CPU's Two
# #O OS Name Linux
# #P Processor or Processors Processor
# #R Ram 64M
# in Megabytes
# #S Plural s
# #T Type of CPU K6
# #U Uptime Uptime 10 hours 59 minutes
# #V Version of OS 2.2.0-pre5
# #X CPU Vendor AMD
# \\n carriage return
LOGO="-L gentoo"
FORMAT="Gentoo #O `cat /etc/gentoo-release | awk '{ print $5,$6 }'`\n#O #V, Compiled #C\n#N #X #T #M CPU#S, #R RAM, #B Bogomips\n#U\n#H / \l \n"
FORMATNET="Gentoo #O `cat /etc/gentoo-release | awk '{ print $5,$6 }'`\n#O #V, Compiled #C\n#N #X #T #M CPU#S, #R RAM, #B Bogomips\n#U\n#H\n"
OPTIONS="-f -u"
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/etc/issue
have some symbols cant see anything ?
When i clear /etc/issue it show uptime in that moment but after that not updating just show same uptime when i clean /etc/issue ?
on terminal uptime works fine but on this linux-logo not working well !
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| Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2018 4:36 am Post subject: |
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| sleepingsun wrote: | /
/etc/issue
have some symbols cant see anything ?
When i clear /etc/issue it show uptime in that moment but after that not updating just show same uptime when i clean /etc/issue ?
on terminal uptime works fine but on this linux-logo not working well ! |
But indeed, it runs update only once, when /etc/init.d/linux-logo is run, i.e on boot. All further use just shows the same /etc/issue. Update is on reboot |
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