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ISSUE-GENERATOR(8) issue-generator ISSUE-GENERATOR(8)

NAME

issue-generator, issue-add-ssh-keys.service, issue-generator.service, 90-issue-generator.rules, issue-generator.conf - Creates a volatile and temporary issue file

SYNOPSIS

/usr/sbin/issue-generator [--prefix path] [--help]

/usr/sbin/issue-generator network add | remove interface

/usr/sbin/issue-generator ssh add | remove

/usr/sbin/issue-generator --version

issue-add-ssh-keys.service

issue-generator.service

DESCRIPTION

issue-generator creates a volatile and temporary issue(5) file based on the input files and location specified in issue.d(5).

If invoked with no arguments, it applies all valid input files and creates a temporary issue file as /run/issue. /etc/issue should be symlink to this file.

Backup files ending on *.bak, *~ or *.rpm* will be ignored. Like files ending on *.issue, as this are directly shown by agetty(8).

OPTIONS

--prefix path

Add the prefix path to all used directories and files.

network add|remove interface

Creates a deletes files of the format /run/issue.d/70-interface.conf. This files contains the name of the interface and the escape codes for agetty(8) to insert the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

By default, only network interfaces where the name starts with 'b' or 'e' are added. Which interfaces are shown is configureable via a regex expression in in the variable NETWORK_INTERFACE_REGEX in /etc/sysconfig/issue-generator.

ssh add|remove

Creates or deletes the file /run/issue.d/60-ssh_host_keys.conf which contains fingerprints of the public ssh keys of the host.

SEE ALSO

issue(5), issue.d(5), agetty(8)

AUTHOR

Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>

05/27/2021 issue-generator