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.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de),
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.\" Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993
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.\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
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.\" USA.
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.\"
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.\" Modified Sun Jul 25 11:06:22 1993 by Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
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.\" Modified Mon Oct 21 17:47:19 EDT 1996 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
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.TH ISSUE 5 1993-07-24 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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issue \- pre-login message and identification file
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The file \fI/etc/issue\fP is a text file which contains a message or
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system identification to be printed before the login prompt.
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It may contain various \fB@\fP\fIchar\fP and \fB\e\fP\fIchar\fP
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sequences, if supported by the
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.BR getty -type
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program employed on the system.
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.SH FILES
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/etc/issue
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR motd (5),
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.BR agetty (8),
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.BR mingetty (8)
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