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),
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).
- --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.
- --loginpause
- Wait for any key before dropping to the login prompt. Can
be combined with --autologin to save memory by lazily spawning
shells.
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 © 1996 Florian La Roche <laroche@redhat.com>. Man-page
written by David Frey <David.Frey@eos.lugs.ch> and Florian La
Roche.
