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MINGETTY

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
ISSUE ESCAPES
EXAMPLE
FILES
SEE ALSO
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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 .