fgetty(8) [debian man page]

FGETTY(8)						   System Administrator's Manual						 FGETTY(8)

NAME

       fgetty - a small getty for linux

SYNOPSIS

       fgetty tty [--noclear] [--long-hostname]

DESCRIPTION

       The command fgetty is normally invoked by init(8), opens a tty port, prompts for a login name and invokes the /bin/login command.

OPTIONS

       --noclear makes fgetty not clear the screen before displaying the login prompt.

       --long-hostname makes fgetty display the full hostname in the login prompt.

FILES

       /etc/issue	printed before the login prompt
       /etc/inittab	init(8) configuration file
       /var/run/utmp	the system status file

ISSUE ESCAPES

       The  issue-file	(/etc/issue  or  the file may contain certain escape codes to display the system name, date and time etc. All escape codes
       consist of a backslash () immediately followed by one of the letters explained below.

       d      the current date. (eg: 2002-01-19)

       s      the system name, the name of the operating system. (eg: Linux)

       l      the name of the current tty line. (eg: tty3)

       m      the architecture identifier of the machine (eg: i586)

       n      the nodename of the machine, also known as the hostname. (eg: sirius)

       o      the domainname of the machine. (eg: (none))

       r      the release number of the OS. (eg: 2.4.3-i)

       t      the current time. (eg: 14:51:51)

       u      the number of current users logged in. (eg: 4)

       U      the string "1 user" or "<n> users", where <n> is the number of current users logged in. (eg: 4 users)

       v      Insert the version of the OS. (eg: #2 Fre Jan 18 23:05:45 CET 2002)

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       HOST    is set to your hostname
       TERM    is set to linux
       TTY     is set to the current tty line

RETURN VALUES

       1     could not chown/chmod tty device
       3     could not open tty device
       4     not a typewriter
       5     vhangup failed
       6     could not open tty (can't happen)
       7     dup failed
       8     could not exec login
       9     read returned an unexpected error
       10    unprintable character in login name
       11    login name too long (>40)

       13    user name started with a dash
       23    received SIGQUIT

AUTHOR

       Felix von Leitner <felix-fgetty@fefe.de>

       Homepage: http://www.fefe.de/fgetty/

fgetty								    2002-01-19								 FGETTY(8)

MINGETTY(8)						     Linux Programmer's Manual						       MINGETTY(8)

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),

       
     inserts machine's network node hostname (uname -n),

       o     inserts domain name,

       
     inserts operating system release (uname -r),

       	     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 
 m v" into /etc/issue.

FILES

       /etc/issue, /var/run/utmp.

SEE ALSO

       mgetty(8), agetty(8).

AUTHOR

       Copyright (C) 1996 Florian La Roche <laroche@redhat.com>.  Man-page written by David Frey <David.Frey@eos.lugs.ch> and Florian La Roche.

Debian-Local							    6 Apr 1996							       MINGETTY(8)