WELCOME2L(1) Welcome2L User's Manual WELCOME2L(1)NAME
Welcome2L - Linux ANSI boot logo.
SYNOPSIS
Welcome2L [ -scr ] [ -getty ] [ -gettps] [ -msg ] [ -cpu ] [ -scrrand ] [ -xmas ] [ -xmasauto ] [ -lcol ] [ -nolf ] [ -private ] [-notime
]
DESCRIPTION
Welcome2L is a little program that may run at login time to produce a BBS like ANSI login logo. It's very similar to Linux_Logo. But where
Linux_Logo intends to be portable, Welcome2L intends to produce the best looking ANSI screens by making full usage of PC graphic
characters. Therefore an architecture able to display those characters (i386, Alpha with TGA adapter, ... ) is required to use it. And,
even if it will work on larger screens, it will only produce 80 column ANSI screens.
OPTIONS -getty Will display more accurate information when launched at boot time.
-gettps Like -getty, but works with gettyps(8) program.
-nolf Will not add an empty line to the ansi screen produced.
-msg -msg"text of message" will show the message given as the distribution info.
-cpu -cpu"name" will show the name given as the CPU name.
-scrxx Will display screen number xx.
-scrrand
Will display a random screen.
-xmas Will display an Xmas screen.
-xmasauto
Will automatically display an Xmas screen in December and January.
-lcolxx Will change the prompt color to the color number xx. Type Welcome2L -help to see what number is attributed to a color.
-private
Display an "Unauthorized access is prohibited" line at the bottom of the ANSI screen.
-notime When dispalying date information, do not display time.
-noblink
Turn blinking off. Useful with -xmas or -xmasauto on framebuffer devices, which do not support blinking.
-help Will display usage information.
EXAMPLE
/usr/bin/Welcome2L -getty -msg"Debian GNU/Linux" -lcol14
RESTRICTIONS
Welcome2L is not intended to run in a xterm.
CAVEAT
Because "A 'welcome' page has been proven to be an invitation to come your system, thus making it legal to hack into your box." you may
want to use the "-private" arg when running Welcome2L to display an "Unauthorized access is prohibited" line at the bottom of the ANSI
screen.
COPYRIGHT
Welcome2L Copyright (C)1998-1999 Little Igloo Org is freely distributable under the GNU Public License, a copy of which you should have
received with this software (in a file called COPYING).
AVAILABILITY
You can get the last Welcome2L version, sources, binaries distribution or RedHat Packages, at : http://www.LittleIgloo.org
AUTHOR
Jean-Marc Jacquet <jm@littleigloo.org>
3rd Berkeley Distribution Welcome2L Version 3.04 WELCOME2L(1)
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GETTY(8) BSD System Manager's Manual GETTY(8)NAME
getty, uugetty -- set terminal modes for system access
SYNOPSIS
getty [type [tty]]
uugetty [type [tty]]
DESCRIPTION
The getty program is called by init(8) to open and initialize the tty line, read a login name, and invoke login(1). The devices on which to
run getty are normally determined by ttys(5).
The getty program can also recognize a Point to Point Protocol (PPP) negotiation, and, if the pp attribute in gettytab(5) is set, invoke the
program given by that string, e.g., pppd(8), instead of login(1). This makes it possible to use a single serial port for either a "shell"
account with command line interface, or a PPP network link.
The argument tty is the special device file in /dev to open for the terminal (for example, "ttyh0"). If there is no argument or the argument
is '-', the tty line is assumed to be open as file descriptor 0.
The type argument can be used to make getty treat the terminal line specially. This argument is used as an index into the gettytab(5) data-
base, to determine the characteristics of the line. If there is no argument, or there is no such table, the default table is used. If there
is no /etc/gettytab a set of system defaults is used. If indicated by the table located, getty will clear the terminal screen, print a ban-
ner heading, and prompt for a login name. Usually either the banner or the login prompt will include the system hostname.
getty uses the ttyaction(3) facility with an action of "getty" and user "root" to execute site-specific commands when it starts.
Most of the default actions of getty can be circumvented, or modified, by a suitable gettytab(5) table.
The getty program can be set to timeout after some interval, which will cause dial up lines to hang up if the login name is not entered rea-
sonably quickly.
The uugetty program is the same, except that it uses pidlock(3) to respect the locks in /var/spool/lock of processes that dial out on that
tty.
FILES
/etc/gettytab
/etc/ttys
/var/spool/lock/LCK..ttyXX
DIAGNOSTICS
ttyxx: No such device or address.
ttyxx: No such file or address. A terminal which is turned on in the ttys(5) file cannot be opened, likely because the requisite lines are
either not configured into the system, the associated device was not attached during boot-time system configuration, or the special file in
/dev does not exist.
SEE ALSO login(1), ioctl(2), pidlock(3), ttyaction(3), tty(4), gettytab(5), ttys(5), init(8), pppd(8)HISTORY
A getty program appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.
BSD December 12, 1998 BSD