Bug 436387 - /etc/issue should include the terminal
Summary: /etc/issue should include the terminal
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: fedora-release
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: David Cantrell
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-03-06 21:57 UTC by Dax Kelson
Modified: 2013-01-10 01:48 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-03-13 15:39:20 UTC
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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.
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