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mingetty − minimal getty for consoles |
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mingetty [−−noclear] [−−long−hostname] tty |
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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. |
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−−noclear |
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Do not clear the screen before prompting for the login name (the screen is normally cleared). |
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−−long−hostname |
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By default the hostname is only printed until the first dot. With this option enabled, the full text from gethostname() is shown. |
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mingetty recognizes the following escapes sequences which might be embedded in the /etc/issue file: |
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\d |
insert current day (localtime), |
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\l |
insert line on which mingetty is running, |
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\m |
inserts machine architecture (uname -m), |
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\n |
inserts machine’s network node hostname (uname -n), |
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\o |
inserts domain name, |
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\r |
inserts operating system release (uname -r), |
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\t |
insert current time (localtime), |
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\s |
inserts operating system name, |
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\u |
the current number of users which are currently logged in. \U inserts "n users", where as \u only inserts "n". |
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\v |
inserts operating system version (uname -v). |
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"Linux eos i386 #1 Tue Mar 19 21:54:09 MET 1996" was produced by putting "\s \n \m \v" into /etc/issue. |
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/etc/issue, /var/run/utmp. |
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mgetty(8), agetty(8). |
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Copyright © 1996 Florian La Roche <florian@suse.de> or <florian@jurix.jura.uni−sb.de>. Man-page written by David Frey <David.Frey@eos.lugs.ch> and Florian La Roche. |