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gcb
10-20-2001, 03:09 PM
does anyone know the commands that you can place in the /etc/issue file?
error27
10-20-2001, 03:30 PM
man issue or man getty
bdg1983
10-20-2001, 04:02 PM
You cannot add commands to /etc/issue. Only text.

issue - pre-login message and identification file
gcb
10-20-2001, 05:07 PM
but i've seen things like \s and \l in an issue file and they do thinks like print the kernel version & what tty your on...i was wondering where i'd find these things
error27
10-20-2001, 05:10 PM
ISSUE ESCAPES
The issue-file (/etc/issue or the file set with the -f
option) may contain certain escape codes to display the
system name, date and time etc. All escape codes consist
of a backslash (\) immediately followed by one of the let?
ters explained below.

b Insert the baudrate of the current line.

d Insert the current date.

s Insert the system name, the name of the operating
system.

l Insert the name of the current tty line.

m Insert the architecture identifier of the machine,
eg. i486

n Insert the nodename of the machine, also known as
the hostname.

o Insert the domainname of the machine.

r Insert the release number of the OS, eg. 1.1.9.

t Insert the current time.

u Insert the number of current users logged in.

U Insert the string "1 user" or "<n> users" where <n>
is the number of current users logged in.

v Insert the version of the OS, eg. the build-date
etc.
bdg1983
10-20-2001, 05:18 PM
Sorry as I thought you meant actual commands such as ls, insmod etc.

error27 is correct with the escape codes.
gcb
10-20-2001, 05:28 PM
ah don't worry about it login name, thanks anyway...thanks for the info guys