Bug 436387

Summary: /etc/issue should include the terminal
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Dax Kelson <dkelson>
Component: fedora-releaseAssignee: David Cantrell <dcantrell>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Dax Kelson 2008-03-06 21:57:57 UTC
Description of problem:
Currently the text terminal login prompts provide no indication which tty they
are on. When switching terminals from F1 to F2 (for example) there is no
indication the switch occurred since the screens are exactly identical.

Please add the current tty to the login prompt by adding \l to /etc/issue file.

I suggest:

Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)
Kernel \r on an \m (\l)

For reference, SUSE, Debian and Ubuntu have \l in their /etc/issue files:

Debian's /etc/issue:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 \n \l

SUSE's /etc/issue:

Welcome to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86_64) - Kernel \r (\l).

Ubuntu's /etc/issue:

Ubuntu 7.10 \n \l

Comment 1 Dax Kelson 2008-03-06 22:13:39 UTC
It would be nice if this could make the cut before the March 11th freeze.

Comment 2 Jesse Keating 2008-03-13 15:39:20 UTC
Added for Beta.