mingetty

 

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 MINGETTY(8)         Linux Programmer's Manual         MINGETTY(8)
 
 
 
NAME
        mingetty - minimal getty for consoles
 
SYNOPSIS
        mingetty [--noclear] [--long-hostname] tty
 
 
DESCRIPTION
        mingetty  is  a minimal getty for use on virtual consoles.
        Unlike agetty(8), mingetty  is  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 screen is normally cleared).
 
        --long-hostname
               By default the hostname is only printed  until  the
               first dot.  With this option enabled, the full text
               from gethostname() is shown.
 
 
 ISSUE ESCAPES
        mingetty recognizes the following escapes sequences  which
        might be embedded in the /etc/issue file:
 
        \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. \U the current number of users which are cur­
               rently  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  pro­
        duced by 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 <florian@suse.de> or
        <florian@jurix.jura.uni-sb.de>.  Man-page written by David
        Frey <David.Frey@eos.lugs.ch> and Florian La Roche.
 
 
 
 Debian-Local                6 Apr 1996                MINGETTY(8)

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