man5/issue.5

   1 .\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de),
   2 .\"     Fri Apr  2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993
   3 .\"
   4 .\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
   5 .\"
   6 .\" Modified Sun Jul 25 11:06:22 1993 by Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
   7 .\" Modified Mon Oct 21 17:47:19 EDT 1996 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
   8 .TH ISSUE 5 1993-07-24 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
   9 .SH NAME
  10 issue \- prelogin message and identification file
  11 .SH DESCRIPTION
  12 .I /etc/issue
  13 is a text file which contains a message or
  14 system identification to be printed before the login prompt.
  15 It may contain various \fB@\fP\fIchar\fP and \fB\e\fP\fIchar\fP
  16 sequences, if supported by the
  17 .BR getty -type
  18 program employed on the system.
  19 .SH FILES
  20 .I /etc/issue
  21 .SH SEE ALSO
  22 .BR motd (5),
  23 .BR agetty (8),
  24 .BR mingetty (8)