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Diffstat (limited to 'term-utils/agetty.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | term-utils/agetty.8 | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/term-utils/agetty.8 b/term-utils/agetty.8 index c4b7f13e2..66f1a0389 100644 --- a/term-utils/agetty.8 +++ b/term-utils/agetty.8 @@ -338,8 +338,9 @@ Insert the system name, the name of the operating system. Same as `uname \-s'. See also \\S escape code. .TP S or S{VARIABLE} -Insert the VARIABLE data from \fI/etc/os-release\fP. If the VARIABLE argument -is not specified then use PRETTY_NAME from the file or the system name (see \\s). +Insert the VARIABLE data from \fI/etc/os-release\fP, if the file does not exist +then fallback to \fI/usr/lib/os-release\fP. If the VARIABLE argument is not +specified then use PRETTY_NAME from the file or the system name (see \\s). This escape code allows to keep \fI/etc/issue\fP distribution and release independent. Note that \\S{ANSI_COLOR} is converted to the real terminal escape sequence. @@ -401,7 +402,7 @@ the system status file. .B /etc/issue printed before the login prompt. .TP -.B /etc/os-release +.B /etc/os-release /usr/lib/os-release operating system identification data. .TP .B /dev/console |