minix man page for getty

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

NAME
       getty - system login banner

SYNOPSIS
       getty [banner ...]

DESCRIPTION
       Getty displays a system identification banner, reads a user name from standard input and executes login with that name as argument.

       Getty  uses  its  arguments separated by spaces as a login banner.  The character sequences 
, s and 	 are printed as newline, space and
       tab.  Any other x prints that x.  The character sequences %s, %n, etc. produce the same output as uname -s, uname -n,  etc.   The  default
       banner is

	      %sssReleases%rsVersions%v

%nslogin:s

       The only other useful functionality offered by getty is that it can be suspended by signal SIGUSR1 and restarted by SIGUSR2.  This allows a
       program such as modem(1) to temporarily claim a dialin line for dialout.

SEE ALSO
       modem(1), ttytab(5), init(8).

BUGS
       Getty should be taught about modems and modem lines.  The signal trick is an awful hack.

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

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