ttytab(5) [minix man page]

TTYTAB()																  TTYTAB()

NAME

       ttytab - table of login terminals

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/ttytab

DESCRIPTION

       The ttytab file lists all the terminal devices that one can login on.  It is a simple text file that contains lines of the form:

	      name type "getty"   "init"

       The  name and type fields are simple words, name is the name of the terminal device with /dev stripped off, and type tells the type of ter-
       minal to initialize the TERM environment variable.

       The getty and init fields may name commands that are run to allow one to login on the line, or to initialize the line.  Both  these  fields
       may be more than one word if the whole field is enclosed in double quotes.  Getty is usually simply the word getty, the command that prints
       a system identification banner and allows on to type a name to log in.  Init is usually an stty command to set the baud rate and parity	of
       a serial line.

       The  init  field  may  be omitted to indicate that no initialization is necessary, and the getty field may be left out to not start a login
       process.  Terminals should not be left out, because their place in the ttytab file determines their slot number as returned by ttyslot(3).

       Comments (introduced by #) and empty lines are ignored.

EXAMPLE

       A ttytab for the console, two serial lines, and a pseudo tty entry:

	      console	  minix       getty
	      tty00	  vt100       getty	  "stty 9600"
	      tty01	  dialup      getty	  "stty 38400"
	      ttyp0	  network

ENVIRONMENT

       TERM	      Terminal type

NOTES

       It is customary to set the type to dialup for a dialin line.  One can check for that name in one's .profile.

SEE ALSO

       gettyent(3), ttyslot(3), init(8).

AUTHOR

       Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)

																	  TTYTAB()

getty(8)						      System Manager's Manual							  getty(8)

NAME

       getty - Sets the terminal type, modes, speed, and line discipline

SYNOPSIS

       getty [-h] [-t time] line speed_label terminal line_discipline

       getty -c file

FLAGS

       Hold  the  carrier  during the initialization phase;do not hang up.  Set the time period to the specified number of seconds.  Drop the line
       after that amount of time if nothing is typed.  Check the specified gettydefs file.

DESCRIPTION

       The getty command sets and manages terminals by setting up speed, terminal flags, and the line discipline.  If command flags are  provided,
       getty  adapts  the  system to those specifications.  getty prints the login prompt, waits for the user to enter a username, and invokes the
       login command.

       getty uses the /etc/gettydefs file for terminal information.  The line argument refers to the device name in /dev.  The	speed_label  argu-
       ment  is a pointer into the /etc/gettydefs file where the definitions for speed and other associated flags are located.	The terminal argu-
       ment specifies the name of the terminal type.  The line_discipline argument specifies the name of the line discipline.

       The second syntax for the getty command provides a check option.  When getty is invoked with the -c option and filename argument, it checks
       the specified file in the same way it scans gettydefs for terminal information, then prints the results to standard output.

       By  default,  the getty daemon writes the login string specified in the message field of the /etc/gettydefs file to any terminal spawned or
       respawned from the /etc/inittab file.  If an /etc/issue file present, getty reads the file and writes its contents to the terminal prior to
       writing the login string specified in the /etc/gettydefs file.

FILES

       Specifies the command path.  Specifies the terminal line database file.	Specifies the path name for the issue identification file

RELATED INFORMATION

       Commands:  init(8), login(1), stty(1)

       Files: issue(4).  delim off

																	  getty(8)