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issue(F)


issue -- issue identification file

Format

Free format ASCII text

Description

The issue file (/etc/issue) contains the issue or project identification to be printed as a login prompt. This is an ASCII file which is read by the getty program and then written to any terminal spawned or respawned from the /etc/inittab file. getty does the same with the default system issue in /etc/default/issue.

Files


/etc/issue
full pathname of issue

/etc/default/issue
full pathname of the default system issue

See also

login(M), init(M), ct(C), inittab(F)
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SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.7 -- 11 February 2003