From: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:29:01 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: docs: agetty manual update
X-Git-Tag: v2.20-rc1~308
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d54749cf331c92513772934f5a28e21bc00514a3;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git

docs: agetty manual update

Tell users how to see what issue escape will print by using other
commands, such as uname.

Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
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diff --git a/term-utils/agetty.8 b/term-utils/agetty.8
index ac6a2e3313..21a07a0eee 100644
--- a/term-utils/agetty.8
+++ b/term-utils/agetty.8
@@ -218,25 +218,25 @@ d
 Insert the current date.
 .TP
 s
-Insert the system name, the name of the operating system.
+Insert the system name, the name of the operating system. Same as `uname -s'.
 .TP
 l
 Insert the name of the current tty line.
 .TP
 m
-Insert the architecture identifier of the machine, eg. i486
+Insert the architecture identifier of the machine. Same as `uname -m'.
 .TP
 n
-Insert the nodename of the machine, also known as the hostname.
+Insert the nodename of the machine, also known as the hostname. Same as `uname -n'.
 .TP
 o
-Insert the NIS domainname of the machine.
+Insert the NIS domainname of the machine. Same as `hostname -d'.
 .TP
 O
 Insert the DNS domainname of the machine.
 .TP
 r
-Insert the release number of the OS, eg. 1.1.9.
+Insert the release number of the OS. Same as `uname -r'.
 .TP
 t
 Insert the current time.