Bug 1006462 - RFE: allow \S escape that defaults to PRETTY_NAME in /etc/issue handling
Summary: RFE: allow \S escape that defaults to PRETTY_NAME in /etc/issue handling
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: util-linux
Version: 7.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Karel Zak
QA Contact: Juraj Marko
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Blocks: 801536 909224 1009944
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Reported: 2013-09-10 16:18 UTC by Bill Nottingham
Modified: 2015-09-01 03:39 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version: util-linux-2.23.2-5.el7
Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2014-06-13 12:02:30 UTC
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Description Bill Nottingham 2013-09-10 16:18:33 UTC 
Description of problem:

As discussed via e-mail. Filing here for tracking.

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So, crazy idea:

Adds a \S escape to agetty, to pretty name from /etc/os-release.
We're working on some code for flexible product branding for RHEL, and while
we can rewrite /etc/os-release on branding changes easily, having to rewrite
/etc/issue and friends is a bit ugly. 
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Comment 2 Karel Zak 2013-09-12 11:01:35 UTC 
Implemented by upstream commit b34f097e756ab2c762b1ce0f8c9813dbc7e3e308.
Comment 8 Trinh 2014-01-14 16:41:32 UTC 
Chris, is this fix in RHEL7 Snapshot-1?
Comment 11 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 12:02:30 UTC 
This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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