MINGETTY (8)
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:
insert current day (localtime),
insert line on which
mingetty
is running,
inserts machine architecture (uname -m),
inserts machine's network node hostname (uname -n),
inserts operating system release (uname -r),
insert current time (localtime),
inserts operating system name,
the current number of users which are currently logged in.
\\U inserts "n users", where as \\u only inserts "n".
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 \(co 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.
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