mingetty

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 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
       mgetty(8), agetty(8).


AUTHOR
       Copyright   (C)  1996  Florian  La  Roche  <florian@suse.de>  or  <flo-
       rian@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)