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| 1 | .TH MINGETTY 8 "6 Apr 1996" "Debian-Local" "Linux Programmer's Manual" |
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| 2 | .SH NAME |
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| 3 | mingetty \- minimal getty for consoles |
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| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
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| 5 | .B mingetty |
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| 6 | [\-\-noclear] [\-\-long\-hostname] |
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| 7 | .I tty |
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| 8 | .PP |
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| 9 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
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| 10 | .B mingetty |
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| 11 | is a minimal getty for use on virtual consoles. |
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| 12 | Unlike |
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| 13 | .BR agetty (8), |
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| 14 | .B mingetty |
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| 15 | is not suitable for serial lines. |
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| 16 | I recommend using |
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| 17 | .BR mgetty (8) |
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| 18 | for this purpose. |
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| 19 | .PP |
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| 20 | .SH OPTIONS |
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| 21 | .TP |
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| 22 | .B \-\-noclear |
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| 23 | Do not clear the screen before prompting for the login name (the screen |
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| 24 | is normally cleared). |
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| 25 | .TP |
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| 26 | .B \-\-long\-hostname |
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| 27 | By default the hostname is only printed until the first dot. |
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| 28 | With this option enabled, the full text from gethostname() is shown. |
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| 29 | .PP |
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| 30 | .SH "ISSUE ESCAPES" |
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| 31 | .B mingetty |
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| 32 | recognizes the following escapes sequences which might be embedded in the |
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| 33 | .I /etc/issue |
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| 34 | file: |
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| 35 | .IP \fB\ed\fP |
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| 36 | insert current day (localtime), |
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| 37 | .IP \fB\el\fP |
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| 38 | insert line on which |
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| 39 | .B mingetty |
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| 40 | is running, |
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| 41 | .IP \fB\em\fP |
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| 42 | inserts machine architecture (uname -m), |
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| 43 | .IP \fB\en\fP |
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| 44 | inserts machine's network node hostname (uname -n), |
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| 45 | .IP \fB\eo\fP |
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| 46 | inserts domain name, |
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| 47 | .IP \fB\er\fP |
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| 48 | inserts operating system release (uname -r), |
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| 49 | .IP \fB\et\fP |
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| 50 | insert current time (localtime), |
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| 51 | .IP \fB\es\fP |
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| 52 | inserts operating system name, |
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| 53 | .IP \fB\eu\fP |
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| 54 | resp. \fB\eU\fP |
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| 55 | the current number of users which are currently logged in. |
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| 56 | \\U inserts "\fIn\fP users", where as \\u only inserts "\fIn\fP". |
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| 57 | .IP \fB\ev\fP |
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| 58 | inserts operating system version (uname -v). |
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| 59 | .PP |
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| 60 | .SH EXAMPLE |
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| 61 | "\fBLinux\ eos\ i386\ #1\ Tue\ Mar\ 19\ 21:54:09\ MET\ 1996\fP" was produced |
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| 62 | by putting "\fB\\s\ \\n\ \\m\ \\v\fP" into |
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| 63 | .IR /etc/issue . |
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| 64 | .PP |
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| 65 | .SH FILES |
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| 66 | .IR /etc/issue , |
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| 67 | .IR /var/run/utmp . |
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| 68 | .PP |
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| 69 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
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| 70 | .BR mgetty (8), |
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| 71 | .BR agetty (8). |
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| 72 | .PP |
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| 73 | .SH AUTHOR |
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| 74 | Copyright \(co 1996 Florian La Roche <florian@suse.de> |
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| 75 | or <florian@jurix.jura.uni\-sb.de>. |
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| 76 | Man-page written by David Frey <David.Frey@eos.lugs.ch> and |
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| 77 | Florian La Roche. |
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