mingetty - Unix, Linux Command


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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] 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

TagDescription
--noclear
  Do not clear the screen before prompting for the login name (the screen is 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 by other 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 for a login name and password. Check the -f option from /bin/login for this.

ISSUE ESCAPES

mingetty recognizes the following escapes sequences which might be embedded in the /etc/issue file:
TagDescription
\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 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 produced by putting "\s \n \m \v" into /etc/issue.

FILES

/etc/issue, /var/run/utmp.

SEE ALSO

AUTHOR

Copyright © 1996 Florian La Roche <laroche@redhat.com>. Man-page written by David Frey <David.Frey@eos.lugs.ch> and Florian La Roche.
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