NAME | DESCRIPTION | FILES | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

The Linux Programming Interface

ISSUE(5)                      Linux Programmer's Manual                      ISSUE(5)

NAME         top

       issue - prelogin message and identification file

DESCRIPTION         top

       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         top

       /etc/issue

SEE ALSO         top

       motd(5), agetty(8), mingetty(8)

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of release 3.32 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/.

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