MINGETTY(8)

NAME

mingetty - minimal getty for consoles

SYNOPSIS

mingetty  [--noclear] [--nonewline] [--noissue] [--nohangup] [--nohost-
name]    [--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

--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:

\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.

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