mingetty(8)

1MINGETTY(8)                Linux Programmer's Manual               MINGETTY(8)
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NAME

6       mingetty - minimal getty for consoles
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SYNOPSIS

9       mingetty  [--noclear] [--nonewline] [--noissue] [--nohangup] [--nohost‐
10       name]    [--long-hostname]     [--loginprog=/bin/login]     [--nice=10]
11       [--delay=5]  [--chdir=/home]  [--chroot=/chroot] [--autologin username]
12       [--loginpause] tty
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DESCRIPTION

15       mingetty is a minimal  getty  for  use  on  virtual  consoles.   Unlike
16       agetty(8),  mingetty  is  not  suitable  for serial lines.  I recommend
17       using mgetty(8) for this purpose.
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OPTIONS

20       --noclear
21              Do not clear the screen before prompting for the login name (the
22              screen is normally cleared).
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24       --nonewline
25              Do not print a newline before writing out /etc/issue.
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27       --noissue
28              Do not output /etc/issue.
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30       --nohangup
31              Do  not  call  vhangup() to disable writing to this tty by other
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35              Do not print the hostname before the login prompt.
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37       --long-hostname
38              By default the hostname is only printed  until  the  first  dot.
39              With  this  option  enabled, the full text from gethostname() is
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42       --loginprog /bin/login
43              Change the login app.
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45       --nice 10
46              Change the priority by calling nice().
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48       --delay 5
49              Sleep this many seconds after startup of mingetty.
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51       --chdir /home
52              Change into this directory before calling the login prog.
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54       --chroot /chroot
55              Call chroot() with this directory name.
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57       --autologin username
58              Log the specified user automatically in  without  asking  for  a
59              login name and password. Check the -f option from /bin/login for
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63              Wait for any key before dropping to the login  prompt.   Can  be
64              combined  with  --autologin  to  save  memory by lazily spawning
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ISSUE ESCAPES

68       mingetty recognizes the following  escapes  sequences  which  might  be
69       embedded in the /etc/issue file:
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71       \d     insert current day (localtime),
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75       \m     inserts machine architecture (uname -m),
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77       \n     inserts machine's network node hostname (uname -n),
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81       \r     inserts operating system release (uname -r),
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85       \s     inserts operating system name,
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87       \u     resp.  \U the current number of users which are currently logged
88              in.  \U inserts "n users", where as \u only inserts "n".
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90       \v     inserts operating system version (uname -v).
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EXAMPLE

93       "Linux eos i386 #1 Tue Mar 19 21:54:09 MET 1996"   was   produced    by
94       putting "\s \n \m \v" into /etc/issue.
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FILES

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

103       Copyright © 1996 Florian La Roche <laroche@redhat.com>.  Man-page writ‐
104       ten by David Frey <David.Frey@eos.lugs.ch> and Florian La Roche.
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108Debian-Local                      6 Apr 1996                       MINGETTY(8)