issue(5) File Formats Manual issue(5) issue - , /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. /etc/issue motd(5), agetty(8), mingetty(8) () Azamat Hackimov , Dmitriy S. Seregin , Yuri Kozlov ; GNU (GNU General Public License - GPL, 3 ) , - . - , , () () () <>. Linux 6.9.1 15 2024 . issue(5)