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NAME
       issue - prelogin message and identification file

DESCRIPTION
       The  file  /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)

COLOPHON
       This page is part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project,  and  information  about
       reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



Linux                                                      1993-07-24                                                   ISSUE(5)