8.04 still locks up

Dave Woyciesjes woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net
Fri Sep 5 20:32:14 UTC 2008


Nils Kassube wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>     Your right and it says exactly Ubuntu 8.04.1 \n \l.
>>
>> Not sure what \n and \l are about...
> 
> man 5 issue
> 
> would be the place to look but IMHO that isn't very helpful. Anyway, I 
> think you can see the final string if you use Ctrl-Alt-F2 (or similar, 
> use Ctrl-Alt-F7 to return to your GUI session) for a terminal login. 
> There "\n" would be replaced with the host name and "\l" would be 
> replaced with the terminal name.
> 
> 
> Nils
> 

cat /etc/issue.net for me returns

Ubuntu 8.04.1

whereas the cat /etc/issue returns

Ubuntu 8.04.1 \n \l

Odd, but, eh, whatever...

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