8.04 still locks up

[Karl Larsen]

Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> 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...
>
>   
    Same here. I did it the old way and get:

karl at karl-hardy:~$ cat /etc/issue.net
Ubuntu 8.04.1
karl at karl-hardy:~$ cd /etc
karl at karl-hardy:/etc$ more issue
Ubuntu 8.04.1 \n \l

karl at karl-hardy:/etc$ more issue.net
Ubuntu 8.04.1
karl at karl-hardy:/etc$

Karl


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