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NAME

6       issue - prelogin message and identification file
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DESCRIPTION

9       The  file  /etc/issue is a text file which contains a message or system
10       identification to be printed before the login prompt.  It  may  contain
11       various  @char and \char sequences, if supported by the getty-type pro‐
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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 3.25 of the Linux  man-pages  project.   A
22       description  of  the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
23       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
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