issue.net - Man Page
identification file for telnet sessions
Description
The file /etc/issue.net is a text file which contains a message or system identification to be printed before the login prompt of a telnet session. It may contain various `%-char' (or, alternatively, '\-char') sequences. The following sequences are supported by telnetd:
- %l
- show the current tty
- %h, %n
- show the system node name (FQDN)
- %D, %o
- show the name of the NIS domain
- %d, %t
- show the current time and date
- %s
- show the name of the operating system
- %m
- show the machine (hardware) type
- %r
- show the operating system release
- %v
- show the operating system version
- %%
- display a single '%' character
Files
/etc/issue.net
See Also
Referenced By
May 22, 1994