Declan Moriarty wrote: > Hi folks. > > My login currently looks like this - Normally > > Linux i686 2.4.22 > #1 Fri Apr 15 15:29:56 IST 2005 > genius.(none) > Tue May 3 2005 10:37:24 > genius login: > > That's all fine, but when I mistype an entry (you kmow my typing) the > screen clears and I get this > > > \s \m \r > \v > \n.\o > \d \t > > In other words, all these clever little pieces of nonsense are not > reread properly. Where do you start looking for an error here?
No error. First time the /etc/issue file is read by "agetty", which parses it. The second time it is read by "login", which currently can't and doesn't interpret these backslashed characters. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
