From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 Description of problem: The updated RH 7.1 telnet client/server RPMs introduced a slight incompatability with the previous versions (and other programs that use /etc/issue.net) in that the new telnet-0.17-18 now requires a leading '\' to display a visible backslash in the user login 'greeting' message. This is different than the previous versions of telnet shipped with RH 7.1, and now makes the /etc/issue.net incompatable between telnet and the FTP server. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.place simple "\/" sequence in /etc/issue.net 2.login to localhost, notice that only '/' is visible in greeting. 3.login with FTP, notice that "\/" is visible in greeting. 4.revert to previous version of telnet, notice that "\/" is visible. Expected Results: all servers using /etc/issue.net should see the "\/" chars. Additional info:
this behaviour was intentionally added with Patch7: telnet-0.17-issue.patch Comments Bill?
it was done for compatibility with other programs that parse /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net.