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<sect1 id="postlfs-config-logon" xreflabel="Customizing your Logon with /etc/issue">
<sect1info>
<othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
<date>$Date$</date>
</sect1info>
<?dbhtml filename="logon.html"?>
<title>Customizing your Logon with /etc/issue</title>
<indexterm zone="postlfs-config-logon">
<primary sortas="e-etc-issue">/etc/issue</primary></indexterm>
<?dbhtml filename="logon.html"?>
<para>When you first boot up your new <acronym>LFS</acronym> system, the logon
screen will be nice and plain (as it should be in a bare-bones system). Many
people however, will want their system to display some information in the logon
message. This can be accomplished using the
file <filename>/etc/issue</filename>.</para>
<sect1info>
<othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
<date>$Date$</date>
</sect1info>
<para>The <filename>/etc/issue</filename> file is a plain text file
which will also accept certain Escape sequences (see below) in order to
insert information about the system. There is also the file
<filename>issue.net</filename> which can be used when logging on remotely.
<command>ssh</command> however, will only use it if you set the option in the
configuration file and will also <emphasis>not</emphasis> interpret the
escape sequences shown below.</para>
<title>Customizing your Logon with /etc/issue</title>
<para>One of the most common things which people want to do is to clear
the screen at each logon. The easiest way of doing that is to put a
"clear" escape-sequence into <filename>/etc/issue</filename>. A simple way of
doing this is to do <userinput><command>clear &gt;
/etc/issue</command></userinput>.
This will insert the relevant escape code into the start of the
<filename>/etc/issue</filename> file. Note that if you do this, when
you edit the file, you should leave the ^[c character on
the first line alone.</para>
<indexterm zone="postlfs-config-logon">
<primary sortas="e-etc-issue">/etc/issue</primary>
</indexterm>
<para>The following escapes are recognized by agetty (the program which
usually parses <filename>/etc/issue</filename>). This information is from
<command>man agetty</command> where you can find extra information
about the logon process.</para>
<para>When you first boot up your new LFS system, the logon screen will
be nice and plain (as it should be in a bare-bones system). Many people
however, will want their system to display some information in the logon
message. This can be accomplished using the
file <filename>/etc/issue</filename>.</para>
<para>The <filename>issue</filename> file can contain certain escape codes to
display various information. All escape codes consist of a backslash
(\) immediately followed by one of the letters explained
below (so <option>\d</option> in <filename>/etc/issue</filename> would
insert the current date).</para>
<para>The <filename>/etc/issue</filename> file is a plain text file
which will also accept certain Escape sequences (see below) in order to
insert information about the system. There is also the file
<filename>issue.net</filename> which can be used when logging on remotely.
<command>ssh</command> however, will only use it if you set the option in the
configuration file and will also <emphasis>not</emphasis> interpret the
escape sequences shown below.</para>
<screen>b Insert the baudrate of the current line.
<para>One of the most common things which people want to do is to clear
the screen at each logon. The easiest way of doing that is to put a "clear"
escape-sequence into <filename>/etc/issue</filename>. A simple way of
doing this is to do <command>clear &gt; /etc/issue</command>.
This will insert the relevant escape code into the start of the
<filename>/etc/issue</filename> file. Note that if you do this, when you
edit the file, you should leave the ^[c character on the first line alone.</para>
<para>The following escapes are recognized by <command>agetty</command>
(the program which usually parses <filename>/etc/issue</filename>). This
information is from <command>man agetty</command> where you can find
extra information about the logon process.</para>
<para>The <filename>issue</filename> file can contain certain escape codes to
display various information. All escape codes consist of a backslash (\)
immediately followed by one of the letters explained below (so
<option>\d</option> in <filename>/etc/issue</filename> would
insert the current date).</para>
<screen><literal>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.
@ -62,7 +64,7 @@ t Insert the current time.
u Insert the number of current users logged in.
U Insert the string "1 user" or "&lt;n&gt; users" where &lt;n&gt; is the
number of current users logged in.
v Insert the version of the <acronym>OS</acronym>, e.g., the build-date etc.</screen>
v Insert the version of the OS, e.g., the build-date etc.</literal></screen>
</sect1>