suse man page for issue

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NAME
       issue - prelogin message and identification file

DESCRIPTION
       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
       /etc/issue

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

COLOPHON
       This page is part of release 3.25 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/.

Linux								    1993-07-24								  ISSUE(5)