Re: More 7.1->7.2 upgrade mystery-not answered.

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 02:36:41PM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 08:07:18PM +0000, dsavage peaknet net wrote:
> > > 
> > > This looks like a quasi-script where \r and \m correspond to -r and -m arguments
> > > for 'uname'.
> > > 
> > I guess I don't see this is the answer to my question. When one does a
> > cat issue, the second line should tell me what kernel I am using. It
> > both upgrades I did from 7.1 to 7.2 the issue file  does not contain
> > that information. I don't see that knowing what rpm issue came from
> > will help correct the contents. How does issue get to contain the
> > information of what kernel is being used. There must be a part of the
> > boot process that sets it. How is it set?
> 
> The 'issue' file is read and parsed by your system's 'getty', which is in 
> the case of Red Hat 7 is 'mingetty'.  The file may contain escape 
> sequences described in the mingetty man page.  mingetty replaces those 
> sequences with the appropriate information when it opens a console.
> 
> It's not part of the boot process, and the issue file *itself* should 
> never contain the information you're looking for.
iMaybe it shouldn't but on every system except the two system upgraded from
7.1 the files contain (when you vi them) which identifies the kernel.
So I am still confused.
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