issue(4)


issue -- issue identification file

Description

The file /etc/issue contains the issue or project identification to be printed as a login prompt. issue is an ASCII file that is read by program getty and then written to any terminal spawned or respawned from the lines file.

The contents of the file will be written to the terminal, except for each instance of a replaceable token, denoted by the use of the % character. Each token found in the file, when written to the terminal, will be replaced with the appropriate string, as follows:

%m
machine name (same as uname -m)

%n
node name (same as uname -n)

%r
release name (same as uname -r)

%s
system name (same as uname -s)

%v
version name (same as uname -v)

%%
produces a % character

Files

/etc/issue

References

login(1), uname(1)

Examples

The file might contain the following:
   This is system %n, 
   running UNIX System V Release %r Version %v 

If the system's name were cloud, the release 4.2 and the version 1, a user would see the following before being prompted for a login:

   This is system cloud, 
   running UNIX System V Release 4.2 Version 1 

30 January 1998
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