On 22/11/14 04:36, Joel Sherrill wrote:
On November 21, 2014 5:50:08 PM CST, Chris Johns<chr...@rtems.org>  wrote:
>On 22/11/2014 1:53 am, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>>
>>On 11/21/2014 1:38 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>>On 20/11/14 22:08, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>>>>Hi
>>>>
>>>>We have different code to process these two files on login.
>>>>Can someone point me to a standard source which says
>>>>what is supposed to be handled in each one?
>>>>
>>>>Should we really have both paths?
>>>>
>>>One is for telnet:
>>>
>>>http://linux.die.net/man/5/issue.net
>>>
>>>One for the normal login:
>>>
>>>http://linux.die.net/man/5/issue
>>>
>>I got that from the code. What standard/RFC/etc. requires that
>>they be divergent?
>>
>
>None I can see. It seems a convention specific to each platform.
>FreeBSD
>has other files.
>
>If you want a common file you could use a symlink.
The code supports different "codes" in each. I don't see why they are that way.


Ok, know I understand what you mean with different codes. I thought you mean one code location that uses /etc/issue and one code location that uses /etc/issue.net.

I would not make it more complicated that necessary and use the same format for both files.

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