1 .TH MINGETTY 8 "6 Apr 1996" "Debian-Local" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
3 mingetty \- minimal getty for consoles
6 [\-\-noclear] [\-\-nonewline] [\-\-noissue] [\-\-nohangup] [\-\-nohostname]
7 [\-\-long\-hostname] [\-\-loginprog=/bin/login] [\-\-nice=10] [\-\-delay=5]
8 [\-\-chdir=/home] [\-\-chroot=/chroot] [\-\-autologin username]
14 is a minimal getty for use on virtual consoles.
18 is not suitable for serial lines.
26 Do not clear the screen before prompting for the login name (the screen
30 Do not print a newline before writing out /etc/issue.
33 Do not output /etc/issue.
36 Do not call vhangup() to disable writing to this tty by
40 Do not print the hostname before the login prompt.
43 By default the hostname is only printed until the first dot.
44 With this option enabled, the full text from gethostname() is shown.
46 .B \-\-loginprog /bin/login
50 Change the priority by calling nice().
53 Sleep this many seconds after startup of mingetty.
56 Change into this directory before calling the login prog.
59 Call chroot() with this directory name.
61 .B \-\-autologin username
62 Log the specified user automatically in without asking for
63 a login name and password. Check the \-f option from
68 Wait for any key before dropping to the login prompt.
69 Can be combined with \fB\-\-autologin\fR to save memory by lazily spawning
74 recognizes the following escapes sequences which might be embedded in the
78 insert current day (localtime),
84 inserts machine architecture (uname -m),
86 inserts machine's network node hostname (uname -n),
90 inserts operating system release (uname -r),
92 insert current time (localtime),
94 inserts operating system name,
97 the current number of users which are currently logged in.
98 \\U inserts "\fIn\fP users", where as \\u only inserts "\fIn\fP".
100 inserts operating system version (uname -v).
103 "\fBLinux\ eos\ i386\ #1\ Tue\ Mar\ 19\ 21:54:09\ MET\ 1996\fP" was produced
104 by putting "\fB\\s\ \\n\ \\m\ \\v\fP" into
116 Copyright \(co 1996 Florian La Roche <laroche@redhat.com>.
117 Man-page written by David Frey <David.Frey@eos.lugs.ch> and