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MINGETTY
Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (8)
Updated: 6 Apr 1996
Index NAME
mingetty - minimal getty for consoles
SYNOPSIS
mingetty[--noclear] [--nonewline] [--noissue] [--nohangup] [--nohostname][--long-hostname] [--loginprog=/bin/login] [--nice=10] [--delay=5][--chdir=/home] [--chroot=/chroot] [--autologin username][--loginpause]
tty
DESCRIPTION
mingetty is a minimal getty for use on virtual consoles.Unlike
agetty(8),
mingettyis not suitable for serial lines.I recommend using
mgetty(8)for this purpose.
OPTIONS
- --noclear
- Do not clear the screen before prompting for the login name (the screenis normally cleared).
- --nonewline
- Do not print a newline before writing out /etc/issue.
- --noissue
- Do not output /etc/issue.
- --nohangup
- Do not call vhangup() to disable writing to this tty byother applications.
- --nohostname
- Do not print the hostname before the login prompt.
- --long-hostname
- By default the hostname is only printed until the first dot.With this option enabled, the full text from gethostname() is shown.
- --loginprog /bin/login
- Change the login app.
- --nice 10
- Change the priority by calling nice().
- --delay 5
- Sleep this many seconds after startup of mingetty.
- --chdir /home
- Change into this directory before calling the login prog.
- --chroot /chroot
- Call chroot() with this directory name.
- --autologin username
- Log the specified user automatically in without asking fora login name and password. Check the -f option from/bin/loginfor this.
- --loginpause
- Wait for any key before dropping to the login prompt.Can be combined with --autologin to save memory by lazily spawningshells.
ISSUE ESCAPES
mingetty recognizes the following escapes sequences which might be embedded in the
/etc/issuefile:
- \d
- insert current day (localtime),
- \l
- insert line on which mingetty is running,
- \m
- inserts machine architecture (uname -m),
- \n
- inserts machine's network node hostname (uname -n),
- \o
- inserts domain name,
- \r
- inserts operating system release (uname -r),
- \t
- insert current time (localtime),
- \s
- inserts operating system name,
- \u
- resp. \Uthe current number of users which are currently logged in.\U inserts "n users", where as \u only inserts "n".
- \v
- inserts operating system version (uname -v).
EXAMPLE
"
Linux eos i386 #1 Tue Mar 19 21:54:09 MET 1996" was producedby putting "
\s \n \m \v" into
/etc/issue.
FILES
/etc/issue,
/var/run/utmp.
SEE ALSO
mgetty(8),
agetty(8).
AUTHOR
Copyright © 1996 Florian La Roche <larocheAATTredhat.com>.Man-page written by David Frey <David.FreyAATTeos.lugs.ch> andFlorian La Roche.
Index
- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- OPTIONS
- ISSUE ESCAPES
- EXAMPLE
- FILES
- SEE ALSO
- AUTHOR
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