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mwiertz
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 Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 6:11 pm Post subject: n00b question about /etc/issue |
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Hi there,
It may sound stupid, but I was wondering if it's possible to put a kind of variable (like \n for the hostname) in the /etc/issue file that shows which virtual console I'm using?
Does anyone know? Would be handy someties... I've seen this at other distribs, but I hope I don't have to install one of them just to find out how this is done...
Anyway, thanx in advance,
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teknomage1
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| Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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| maybe \l , not sure |
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mwiertz
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yes, thanx
\l worx perfectly...
where could I have found this?
is there a manpage or another part of documentation?
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teknomage1
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| I checked the man pages and came up empty but i remembered i had a harddrive laying around with mandrake 8.2 on it. Your comment about seeing other distros do it jogged my memory. |
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Zarhan
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| Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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where could I have found this?
is there a manpage or another part of documentation?
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man agetty |
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mwiertz
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Great!
Zarhan, teknomage1, thanks for your fats replies and answers...
really nice
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