man 8 agetty refers. About 3/4 of the way down the manual page there is the ISSUE ESCAPES paragraph.
fyi the \l refers to the name of the tty line to which you are connected. The /etc/issue on my ThinkPad lappie running Gentoo is:- This is \n.\O on \l (\s \m \r) \t \d On 3/13/08, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, March 13, 2008 10:13 am, Kerry wrote: > > Hi Rex, > > > > I have often wondered how to do this myself, one question however. After > > running to command: > > > > cat /etc/issue > > > > I get the following output: > > > > Ubuntu 6.06 LTS \n \l > > > > Any idea what the \n \l means? > > \n new line > \l unsure > > > > > Regards, > > Kerry > > > > On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 11:05 +1300, Roger Searle wrote: > >> Rex wrote: > >> > Roger Searle wrote: > >> >> Hi, trivial question for the day: I fired up a laptop that I don't > >> >> often use, that I have a kubuntu distro installed on, and am not sure > >> >> if it is feisty or gutsy. It's not obvious where I should look to > >> >> see distro version. I can easily find my KDE or kernel version. > >> >> Googling for a command gives me so much info about "ubuntu versions" > >> >> or command line commands, but not for the 2 together. Where is the > >> >> easy way to see? > >> > > >> > Have a look in /etc/issue. > >> > > >> > Cheers, Rex > >> Nice, thank you! > >> Roger > > > > > > > -- > Nick Rout > > -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
