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NAME

6       issue - prelogin message and identification file
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DESCRIPTION

9       /etc/issue  is a text file which contains a message or system identifi‐
10       cation to be printed before the login prompt.  It may  contain  various
11       @char  and  \char  sequences,  if  supported  by the getty-type program
12       employed on the system.
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FILES

15       /etc/issue
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SEE ALSO

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

21       This page is part of release 4.15 of the Linux  man-pages  project.   A
22       description  of  the project, information about reporting bugs, and the
23       latest    version    of    this    page,    can     be     found     at
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