On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:36:34 +0700
Pandu Poluan <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Feb 28, 2012 4:11 AM, "Peter Ruskin" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Monday 27 February 2012 18:37:05 Pandu Poluan wrote:
> > > > >> > I'm installing a new Gentoo box, and it boots
> > > > >> > successfully... but the login screen indicates the
> > > > >> > machine's name as "NAME.O"
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > Where does the ".O" part comes from? How to replace that
> > > > >> > with my actual domain?
> >
> > You can edit /etc/issue to read:
> >
> > This is <host>.<domain> (\r) \t \l
> >
> > Replace <host>.<domain> with real values
> >
> 
> It's that line declaring the OS version, architecture, and
> whathaveyous above the "login:" prompt.
> 
> Rgds,

You probably have a typo in /etc/issue (a missing backslash). Default
looks like so:

 $ cat /etc/issue

This is \n.\O (\s \m \r) \t


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Alan McKinnnon
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