Welcome Message on Boot

lain iwakura · Apprentice Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 176 Location: sd, ca

here's a simple script to add to your /etc/init.d folder to display a Welcome message and kernel info. make a file in /etc/init.d called issue (or whatever you want to call it) and insert this code into the file:

#!/bin/sh
# Local system initialization script
RELEASE="release 1.1a"
COLOR1="\033[1;6m\033[35;40m" # bright magenta on black
COLOR2="\033[1;6m\033[37;40m" # bright white on black
COLOR3="\033[1;6m\033[39;40m"
COLOR_RESET="\033[0m"
rm -f /etc/issue
echo -e $COLOR1"Gentoo"$COLOR2 "Linux"$COLOR_RESET "$RELEASE" "(\l)">>/etc/issue
echo "Kernel $(uname -r) on an $(uname -m)" >> /etc/issue
echo -e $COLOR3"Welcome to the Wired!">>/etc/issue
echo >>/etc/issue
cp -f /etc/issue /etc/issue.net

you can edit and change it to what you want it to say, of coarse. now after you save the new file, as root run rc-update add issue default. everything should work after reboot!

now if somebody could make a cool ansi gentoo logo -- that would be nice :!:

zen_guerrilla · Guru Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 343 Location: Greece

Great script. I' ve got 2 additions to make it a little bit cooler :

1) add
/usr/bin/clear >> /etc/issue
after the rm -f /etc/issue line to have the screen cleared before output.
2) download cowsay (check freshmeat for url) and put :
/usr/local/bin/cowsay "Hello World" >> /etc/issue
after the clear line to have a nice ascii cow. :-)

JefP@@ · Posted: Fri May 31, 2002 2:07 pm Post subject:

Nice, even the cow is working ...

could someone give me some more colors? would be nice

Grtz

JefP@@ · Posted: Fri May 31, 2002 2:08 pm Post subject:

btw: What's the color3 supposed to look like? because it's the same as color2 ?

JefP@@ · Posted: Fri May 31, 2002 2:24 pm Post subject:

some colors I've found :

Black 0;30 Dark Gray 1;30
Blue 0;34 Light Blue 1;34
Green 0;32 Light Green 1;32
Cyan 0;36 Light Cyan 1;36
Red 0;31 Light Red 1;31
Purple 0;35 Light Purple 1;35
Brown 0;33 Yellow 1;33
Light Gray 0;37 White 1;37

Aurix · n00b Joined: 26 May 2002 Posts: 16

zen_guerrilla · Guru Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 343 Location: Greece

Another nice addition is having a fortune cookie after log-in. Here is how-to :

- emerge fortune-mod
- add these lines on /etc/profile :

# fortune cookies
echo
fortune
echo

- log out & back in or source /etc/profile and have a nice fortune cookie :-)

recluse · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 18

I continue you get a "Bad Interpretter" Error. Any suggestions while I try to figure this one out?

Cool tip btw :wink:

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zen_guerrilla · Guru Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 343 Location: Greece

try running 'fortune' on a shell. if it works then check how you wrote it on /etc/profile.

ps. I only tried it on bash, I don't know if it works in other shells...

Harri · n00b Joined: 12 Apr 2002 Posts: 21 Location: Helsinki

I created my first E-build (I'm not really a programmer, but this one wasn't too hard). I present to you, linux_logo. I also made a gentoo logo and included that into the e-build.
Linux_logo draws a nice ansi logo (tux by default) and displays some system information (processor, kernel version, etc.). You can then copy that to the issue and issue.net. All the "big" distributions use this with their own logos, so I figured we need this also

emerge app-misc/linux_logo
For example I run the following script in my crontab (I want to brag about my uptime :twisted:

)

zen_guerrilla · Guru Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 343 Location: Greece

I guess u should work a little bit more on that ebuild. Running 'qpkg -l linux_logo' outputs :

app-misc/linux_logo-4.02 *
CONTENTS:
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/linux_logo-4.02
/usr/share/doc/linux_logo-4.02/BUGS.gz
/usr/share/doc/linux_logo-4.02/TODO.gz
/usr/share/doc/linux_logo-4.02/CHANGES.gz
/usr/share/doc/linux_logo-4.02/COPYING.gz
/usr/share/doc/linux_logo-4.02/README.gz
/usr/share/doc/linux_logo-4.02/README.CUSTOM_LOGOS.gz
/usr/share/doc/linux_logo-4.02/USAGE.gz
/usr/share/doc/linux_logo-4.02/LINUX_LOGO.FAQ.gz
/var
/var/tmp
/var/tmp/portage
/var/tmp/portage/linux_logo-4.02
/var/tmp/portage/linux_logo-4.02/image
/var/tmp/portage/linux_logo-4.02/image/usr
/var/tmp/portage/linux_logo-4.02/image/usr/bin
/var/tmp/portage/linux_logo-4.02/image/usr/bin/linux_logo
/var/tmp/portage/linux_logo-4.02/image/usr/man
/var/tmp/portage/linux_logo-4.02/image/usr/man/man1
/var/tmp/portage/linux_logo-4.02/image/usr/man/man1/linux_logo.1.gz
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Please consider -r1 ebuild, I'd like to check out your logo

lain iwakura · Apprentice Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 176 Location: sd, ca

here's my updated /etc/init.d/issue file. i'm glad Harri added that ebuild package for linux_logo -- very nice. I was using the prog for a while and was going to post where to find it and such but now that there's an ebuild -- much simpler.

anyways, below is my updated script file that you put in /etc/init.d/ . updated with Aurix's nice colors and the linux+logo line. the "-f" option clears the screen.

#!/bin/sh
# Local system initialization script
RELEASE="Release 1.1a"

COLOR1="\033[1;6m\033[32;40m" # bright green on black
COLOR2="\033[1;6m\033[34;40m" # bright purple on black
COLOR3="\033[1;6m\033[31;40m" # bright red on black
COLOR4="\033[1;6m\033[33;40m" # bright yellow on black

rm -f /etc/issue
/usr/bin/linux_logo -c -f>>/etc/issue
echo -e $COLOR1"Gentoo"$COLOR2 "Linux" $COLOR4"$RELEASE" $COLOR_RESET"(\l)">>/etc/issue
echo -e $COLOR3"Welcome to the Wired!">>/etc/issue
echo >>/etc/issue
cp -f /etc/issue /etc/issue.net

I ike the gentoo logo ya did, but I still am liking the classic tux peguin the best. well, I guess it's just a matter of taste.

Harri · n00b Joined: 12 Apr 2002 Posts: 21 Location: Helsinki

zen_guerrilla:

I'm not that familiar with portage, yet, but the e-build works fine.
It doesn't install anything into var/tmp/portage... etc.
I think that list is part of the sandbox thingy, but I don't even use make install and put anything there in the e-build. Someone who knows a little more can come up with an explanation, but as I said the ebuild works fine when I tested it in 2 machines.
Also I just added it to the bugzilla, and some dev actually added it to the cvs tree.

Iwakura:

Thanks

I'm not an artist, and I know the logo could be better, thats all I could come up with after 3 hours of sweat and tears.
Some actual ansi-artists (if there still are any left

) should draw us some cool gentoo logos. It took me for ever to even find a piece of software that could do ansi drawings. I found an old dos software called TheDraw that run under XP, and used that to make the logo.

Zu` · l33t Joined: 26 May 2002 Posts: 716 Location: BE

Hmmmm. Thanks for all the tips, I made something like this

It only shows a new fortune cookie after each boot, I don't like it every time I log in, that's just too much

So here it is, maybe someone likes it

JefP@@ · Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2002 12:44 pm Post subject:

I tried to make an ascii gentoo g ... (I used an image converter, called jitac)

orkid · Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2002 3:27 am Post subject:

lain iwakura · Apprentice Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 176 Location: sd, ca

Jeffp@@, does the logo look the same in a terminal?

i.e. color. could ya change that?

f* around with it and see what you can come up with!

faithfull · n00b Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 67

Hello guys, I see that you are devoted to the beautification of the boot process, so pharaps anyone can tell me how to display a large (more than 80x80) image on kernel boot.
I'm talking about the penguin image (more than one if you have an SMP system) that you see if you turn on the framebuffer feature in kernel config.

zen_guerrilla · Guru Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 343 Location: Greece

Beavis · n00b Joined: 22 May 2002 Posts: 24 Location: Dirty Jersey

If you wanna create your own ascii picture... there's a nice program that helps out with the drawing called JavE. I believe its a java applet, so it should run fine under Linux. The website is http://www.jave.de/

Beavis

lain iwakura · Apprentice Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 176 Location: sd, ca

cool. i'm gonna give the java applet a try and see what i can come up with.
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bidz · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2002 Posts: 54 Location: Norway

really like the startup scripts, but, one question - any idea on how i can add my custom/own ascii to be displayed ? i've got a cool ascii here that i'd like to use, but i dont know how to get it displayed/or if i it can display a pure ascii, or if i have to convert it, or whatever.. ?

for instance, a way to replace the ansi in linux_logo with the ascii 've got? any possibility? and if so, how?

--- nevermind, i just made my own .logo file

thanks for the tips regarding this tho, very nice stuff

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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20484

Using the above examples with an echo line for each line of ascii art? Not sure, just an idea.
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zen_guerrilla · Guru Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 343 Location: Greece

Hello world,
I'm trying to make my custom welcome message and I want it print uptime in linux_logo style (X days Y hours). Is it possible to modify uptime's output using i.e. sed to look like linux_logo' s & how ?

.:: zen ::.

phong · Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2002 3:29 am Post subject:

Coincidentally, I've been working on a program to create ansi art out of .png files... Here's one of the first results, it needs some work still:
[img:88be938764]http://www.phong.org/tuxansi.png[/img:88be938764]
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