From: Herbert Betz <kla@fh-landshut.de> To: Michael Lankton <satan3@home.com> Cc: suse-linux@suse.de Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] /etc/issue Date: Wednesday, September 02, 1998 11:32 AM

On my linux (SuSE 5.1) I can only see the ansi codes, but no colors, e.g.: ...^[[32;40mSS^[[30;47m.... Do I have to set an ANSI terminal type before login ?

_____________________________________________ Herbert Betz - Landshut - herbertbetz@csi.com

On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Michael Lankton wrote:

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It just 'cat's whatever information is in /etc/issue to each tty, in

This is sometimes a problem on linux systems. If you are getting improperly displayed ansi/ascii, simply enter 'setfont' from the command line. You can add the argument 'setfont' to /sbin/init.d/random after 'esac' and before 'exit 0' to fix this. ---------- the

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case of my /etc/issue it's ansi colors. I've just always played around

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