opensolaris man page for issue

issue(4)							   File Formats 							  issue(4)

NAME
       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 ttymon and then written to any terminal spawned or respawned, prior to the normal prompt.

FILES
       /etc/issue

SEE ALSO
       login(1), ttymon(1M)

SunOS 5.11							    2 Jan 2002								  issue(4)