Re: motd

[Douglas Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:55:07PM +0100, Manolo D?az wrote:
> Mike Reinehr wrote:
> >On Monday 30 October 2006 11:59, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> >>I'm running Etch on my new box and getting it set up.
> >>
> >>/etc/motd now points to /var/run/motd and there's a file
> >>/etc/motd.tail
 
> Hi,
> 
> From the getty manpage, section "ISSUE ESCAPES".
> 
> s: the system name, the name of the operating system.
> n: the nodename of the machine, also known as the hostname.
> r: the release number of the OS, eg. 1.1.9.
> v: the version of the OS, eg. the build-date etc.
> m: the architecture identifier of the machine, eg. i486
> 
> Regards,
> Manolo.

How does /etc/issue relate to /etc/motd?