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
© 1998 The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. All rights reserved.