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NAME

       mgettydefs - speed and terminal settings used by mgetty

DESCRIPTION

       The  /etc/gettydefs  file  contains  information used by mgetty(1) to set up the speed and
       terminal settings for a line.  It also supplies  information  on  what  the  login  prompt
       should look like.

       Many  versions  of  UNIX  have a version of getty(1) that also reads /etc/gettydefs.  Both
       mgetty and getty expect similar formats  in  /etc/gettydefs  except  that,  when  used  by
       mgetty, extended functionality is available.  Even so, the additional functions are simply
       ignored by standard getty, so they can co-exist using the same file.  Note, however,  that
       mgetty  can  be  compiled  to  use a file different from /etc/gettydefs if your getty gets
       upset about the extensions.  This manual page documents /etc/gettydefs and  describes  the
       extended  functionality  available  when  used  by mgetty(1).  This document will refer to
       getty(1) except where mgetty's behaviour is different.

       Each entry in /etc/gettydefs has the following format:

              label# initial-flags # final-flags # login-prompt #next-label

       Each entry is followed by a blank  line.   The  login  prompt  field  can  contain  quoted
       characters which will be converted to other values.  The sequences and their substitutions
       are:

       \n             newline

       \r             carriage return

       \g             beep

       \b             backspace

       \v             vertical tab (VT)

       \f             formfeed

       \t             tab

       \L             portname

       \C             time in ctime(3) format.

       \N             number of users currently logged in

       \U             number of users currently logged in

       \D             date in DD/MM format

       \T             time in hh:mm:ss format

       \I             modem CONNECT attributes

       \sequence      where "sequence" is a valid strtol format, such as: \0nnn  (octal),  \0xnnn
                      (hex), or \nnn (decimal).

       Note that standard getty usually only supports \b, \r and \n.

       The various fields are:

       label          This  is the string against which getty tries to match its second argument.
                      It is often the speed, such as 1200, at which the terminal is  supposed  to
                      run, but it need not be (see below).

       initial-flags  These  flags  are the initial ioctl(2) settings to which the terminal is to
                      be set if a terminal type is not specified to getty.  The flags that  getty
                      understands  are the ones listed in termio(7)).  mgetty is usually compiled
                      for termios(7) and often has a more complete set than getty.

       Normally only the speed flag is required in the
                      initial-flags.  getty automatically sets the terminal to raw input mode and
                      takes  care  of the other flags.  If the "-s" option is used with mgetty(1)
                      the speed setting is ignored.  The initial-flag settings remain  in  effect
                      until getty executes login(1).

       final-flags    These  flags  take  the  same  values as the initial-flags and are set just
                      before getty executes login.  The speed flag is again required, except with
                      mgetty  if  the  -s flag was supplied.  Two other commonly specified final-
                      flags are TAB3, so that tabs are sent to the terminal as spaces, and HUPCL,
                      so that the line is hung up on the final close.

       login-prompt   This  entire field is printed as the login-prompt.  Unlike the above fields
                      where white space (a space, tab or new-line) is ignored, they are  included
                      in  the  login-prompt  field.  This field is ignored if the "-p" option has
                      been specified to mgetty(1).

       next-label     specifies the label to use if the user user types a <break>  character,  or
                      getty  detects  a reception error.  Getty searches for the entry with next-
                      label as its label field and  set  up  the  terminal  for  those  settings.
                      Usually,  a  series  of  speeds are linked together in this fashion, into a
                      closed set; for instance, 2400 linked to 1200, which in turn is  linked  to
                      300,  which  finally  is  linked  to  2400.   next-label  is  ignored  with
                      mgetty(1).

       Several additional composite settings are available  for  initial-flags  and  final-flags.
       The following composite flags are supported by mgetty and are usually supported by getty:

       SANE                equivalent  to  ``stty  sane''.  (BRKINT, IGNPAR, ISTRIP, ICRNL, IXON,
                           OPOST, CS8, CREAD, ISIG, ICANON, ECHO, ECHOK)

       ODDP                Odd parity (CS7, PARENB, PARODD)

       PARITY,EVENP        even parity (CS7, PARENB)

       -ODDP,-PARITY,-EVENP
                           no parity (resets PARENB, PARODD, and sets CS8)

       RAW                 raw I/O (no canonical processing) (turns off OPOST, ICANON)

       -RAW,COOKED         enable canonical processing (turns on OPOST, ICANON)

       NL                  Ignore newlines.  (ICRNL, ONLCR)

       -NL                 Respect newlines (turns INLCR, IGNCR, ICRNL, ONLCR, OCRNL, ONLRET off)

       LCASE               Ignore case - treat all as lowercase.  (IUCLC, OLCUC, XCASE) Is set if
                           mgetty believes login is entirely uppercase.

       -LCASE              Repect case (turns off IUCLC, OLCUC and XCASE)

       TABS                output tabs as tabs

       -TABS,TAB3          output tabs as spaces

       EK                  Sets  VERASE to "#" and VKILL to CKILL respectively.  (note that while
                           many  gettys  default  VERASE  to  "#".   mgetty  defaults  VERASE  to
                           backspace.)

       Additionally,  mgetty  (but not getty) can set any of the control characters listed in the
       c_cc termio(termios) structure by the use of two tokens:

       <character name> <value>

       Eg:

       VERASE ^h

       The value can be set as ``^<character>'', ``\nnn''  or  ``\<character>''  (normal  UNIX  \
       escapes).

       See  the  termio(7)  or  termios(7) manual pages to a list of which ``V'' variables can be
       changed.  Note that many of these can be changed in the c_cc array,  but  won't  have  any
       effect.

       If getty is called without a second argument, the first entry of /etc/gettydefs is used by
       getty, thus making the first entry of /etc/gettydefs the default entry.  It is  also  used
       if  getty  cannot find the specified label.  Mgetty use a default label of ``n'', but this
       can be changed in the configuration.  If /etc/gettydefs itself is missing,  there  is  one
       entry built into the command which brings up a terminal at 300 (configuration parameter in
       mgetty) baud.

       It is strongly recommended that after  making  or  modifying  /etc/gettydefs,  it  be  run
       through getty with the check option to be sure there are no errors.

EXAMPLES

       The following two lines show an example of 300/1200 baud toggle, which is useful for dial-
       up ports:

              1200# B1200 HUPCL # B1200 SANE IXANY TAB3 #login: #300
              300# B300 HUPCL # B300 SANE IXANY TAB3 #login: #1200

       The following line shows a typical 9600  baud  entry  for  a  hard-wired  connection  (not
       currently supported for mgetty):

              9600# B9600 # B9600 SANE IXANY IXANY ECHOE TAB3 #login: #9600

       The following line is a typical smart-modem setup, suitable for mgetty:

              19200mg#
                  B19200 #
                  B19200 SANE VERASE \b VINTR \003 HUPCL #
                  \n\D \T \N Users @!login: #19200mg

FILES

       /etc/gettydefs

SEE ALSO

       mgetty(8), getty(8), login(1), ioctl(2), termio(7), termios(7).