Section 5 · File formats
issue.5
Package: man-pages
issue
NAME
DESCRIPTION
FILES
SEE ALSO
NAME
issue − prelogin message and identification file
DESCRIPTION
/etc/issue is a text file which contains a message or system identification to be printed before the login prompt. It may contain various **@**char and **\**char sequences, if supported by the getty-type program employed on the system.
FILES
/etc/issue
SEE ALSO
motd(5), agetty(8), mingetty(8)