/etc/issue vs /etc/issue.net in shell.c

[Joel Sherrill]

On 11/24/2014 1:12 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 22/11/14 04:36, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>> On November 21, 2014 5:50:08 PM CST, Chris Johns<chrisj at 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.
>
That's what I was wondering. It would be going to make it one set of
code for both file types but I would like to know what the standards
or historical origin is for the difference. And hopefully it is something
that is not from RTEMS related.

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