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.
This page is part of release 3.14 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/.