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PostPosted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 8:15 pm    Post subject: [HOW-TO] Get a nice linux logo with console login. Reply with quote

If you're like me, I'm pretty sure that you don't like that the "computer-name login:" text comes right after the startup messages. I was ecently made aware of a program called linux_logo which give a nice ASCII art linux logo. Here's what you do:

1. Download,compile, and install linux-logo by using the all-powerful 'emerge' command:
Code:
# emerge linux-logo


2. Add it to the default runlevel, like so:
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# rc-update add linux-logo default


3. Change the config file if you want, to show different text, or a different logo, etc.
Code:
# nano /etc/conf.d/linux-logo
(I use nano both to stay consistent with the manual, and to attempt to be neutral witht the vi/emacs flamewars) I myself prefer not to show the uptime, as you have to restart linux-logo to change it, so I remove the #O from the format string. I also like to use the "-L 5 -f" )(-f = cover fullscreeen, -L 5 = use a purple-on-black ASCII "Gentoo" logo) options.

4. Now, whenever you login in console mode, you should see the Linux logo (either the word "Linux" with the red italicized i and Tux, or the Gentoo ASCII art) followed by some system stats (the tty#, computer name, kernel version, some hardware info, etc.).

I hope this is useful to someone!
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 8:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks for that how-to :)
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 11:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You're welcome. i just thought that some othrs woud find it mildly useful, even if it is pretty simple/straightforward. :D
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 04, 2004 8:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

great one. thanks.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 12:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 2:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

just tried it and love it, except in my version, the logo ur talking about is -L 3 not 5.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 3:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

strestout1 wrote:
just tried it and love it, except in my version, the logo ur talking about is -L 3 not 5.
is -L 3 the one with the ASCII penguin and "Linux" with a cool curvy 'i'? I like that one, too..but I always switch it back to the purple-on-black "Gentoo"...
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 3:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

codergeek42 wrote:
strestout1 wrote:
just tried it and love it, except in my version, the logo ur talking about is -L 3 not 5.
is -L 3 the one with the ASCII penguin and "Linux" with a cool curvy 'i'? I like that one, too..but I always switch it back to the purple-on-black "Gentoo"...


no. -L 3 is the black back with purple Gentoo letters. -L 4 is grey back with red Gentoo letters.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 4:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

strestout1 wrote:
codergeek42 wrote:
strestout1 wrote:
just tried it and love it, except in my version, the logo ur talking about is -L 3 not 5.
is -L 3 the one with the ASCII penguin and "Linux" with a cool curvy 'i'? I like that one, too..but I always switch it back to the purple-on-black "Gentoo"...


no. -L 3 is the black back with purple Gentoo letters. -L 4 is grey back with red Gentoo letters.
Proof that I /still/ have no idea what I'm doing... :oops:
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 4:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, linux_logo is very nice. Here's a screenshot:

http://floam.sh.nu/linux_logo.png
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 3:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks like Slackware.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 12:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

umm, some explanation as to what FORMAT and FORMATNET mean?
what are valid values for OPTIONS? what do they mean?
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 1:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

kamagurka wrote:
umm, some explanation as to what FORMAT and FORMATNET mean?
what are valid values for OPTIONS? what do they mean?
If I understand correctly, FORMAT is for login prompts for local logins, and FORMATNET is for remote logins, such as SSH and what-not. OPTIONS are the command-line things passwed to the linux-log program to actually make the login prompt like that.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 2:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

And if you want to get rid of the linux-logo on bootup -- rc-update del linux-logo isn't enough. Delete /etc/issue and it will be gone.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 6:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

what...no ANSI art??
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 7:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Y wrote:
what...no ANSI art??


http://www.acid.org/main.html
http://archives.thebbs.org/ra104a.htm

makes me miss the BBS days... *sniff*
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 01, 2018 7:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I know that is old topic i just install this linux-logo and works fine but have problem with uptime not showing anything ?
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2018 12:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I doubt this actually works anymore, this thread was written 14 years ago 8O
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2018 5:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

bunder wrote:
I doubt this actually works anymore, this thread was written 14 years ago 8O


Works fine, including uptime info
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2018 7:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

dmpogo wrote:
bunder wrote:
I doubt this actually works anymore, this thread was written 14 years ago 8O


Works fine, including uptime info


and how to configure that i have uptime info ?

Its show UPTIME but now stat ... other things abot cpu speed memory kernel works fine ...
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2018 4:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

sleepingsun wrote:
dmpogo wrote:
bunder wrote:
I doubt this actually works anymore, this thread was written 14 years ago 8O


Works fine, including uptime info


and how to configure that i have uptime info ?

Its show UPTIME but now stat ... other things abot cpu speed memory kernel works fine ...


Not sure, it worked out of the box for me. Really it just rewrites /etc/issue - what is written there ? And does 'uptime' works from command line for you ?
And the last thing will be to check syntax of /etc/conf.d/linux-logo
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 11:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

/etc/conf.d/linux-logo


Code:
# Seq   Description             Output
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
# ##                            #
# #B    Bogomips                374.37
# #C    Compiled Date           #47 Fri Jan 8 10:37:09 EST 1999
# #E    User Text               My Favorite Linux Distribution
#       Displayed with -t
# #H    Hostname                deranged
# #L    Load average            Load average 0.04, 0.01, 0.01
# #M    Megahertz               188Mhz
#       where supported
# #N    Number of CPU's         Two
# #O    OS Name                 Linux
# #P    Processor or Processors Processor
# #R    Ram                     64M
#       in Megabytes
# #S    Plural                  s
# #T    Type of CPU             K6
# #U    Uptime                  Uptime 10 hours 59 minutes
# #V    Version of OS           2.2.0-pre5
# #X    CPU Vendor              AMD
# \\n   carriage return

LOGO="-L gentoo"
FORMAT="Gentoo #O `cat /etc/gentoo-release | awk '{ print $5,$6 }'`\n#O #V, Compiled #C\n#N #X #T #M CPU#S, #R RAM, #B Bogomips\n#U\n#H / \l  \n"
FORMATNET="Gentoo #O `cat /etc/gentoo-release | awk '{ print $5,$6 }'`\n#O #V, Compiled #C\n#N #X #T #M CPU#S, #R RAM, #B Bogomips\n#U\n#H\n"
OPTIONS="-f -u"


/etc/issue
have some symbols cant see anything ?

When i clear /etc/issue it show uptime in that moment but after that not updating just show same uptime when i clean /etc/issue ?

on terminal uptime works fine but on this linux-logo not working well !
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 21, 2018 4:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

sleepingsun wrote:
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/etc/issue
have some symbols cant see anything ?

When i clear /etc/issue it show uptime in that moment but after that not updating just show same uptime when i clean /etc/issue ?

on terminal uptime works fine but on this linux-logo not working well !


But indeed, it runs update only once, when /etc/init.d/linux-logo is run, i.e on boot. All further use just shows the same /etc/issue. Update is on reboot
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