NAME

       mingetty - minimal getty for consoles

SYNOPSIS

       mingetty    [--noclear]   [--nonewline]   [--noissue]   [--nohangup]   [--nohostname]   [--long-hostname]
       [--loginprog=/bin/login]  [--nice=10]   [--delay=5]   [--chdir=/home]   [--chroot=/chroot]   [--autologin
       username] [--loginpause] tty

DESCRIPTION

       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.

OPTIONS

       --noclear
              Do not clear the screen before prompting for the login name (the screen is normally cleared).

       --nonewline
              Do not print a newline before writing out /etc/issue.

       --noissue
              Do not output /etc/issue.

       --nohangup
              Do not call vhangup() to disable writing to this tty by other applications.

       --nohostname
              Do not print the hostname before the login prompt.

       --long-hostname
              By default the hostname is only printed until the first dot.  With this option enabled,  the  full
              text from gethostname() is shown.

       --loginprog /bin/login
              Change the login app.

       --nice 10
              Change the priority by calling nice().

       --delay 5
              Sleep this many seconds after startup of mingetty.

       --chdir /home
              Change into this directory before calling the login prog.

       --chroot /chroot
              Call chroot() with this directory name.

       --autologin username
              Log the specified user automatically in without asking for a login name and password. Check the -f
              option from /bin/login for this.

       --loginpause
              Wait for any key before dropping to the login prompt.  Can be combined with  --autologin  to  save
              memory by lazily spawning shells.

ISSUE ESCAPES

       mingetty recognizes the following escapes sequences which might be embedded in the /etc/issue file:

       \d     insert current day (localtime),

       \l     insert line on which mingetty is running,

       \m     inserts machine architecture (uname -m),

       \n     inserts machine's network node hostname (uname -n),

       \o     inserts domain name,

       \r     inserts operating system release (uname -r),

       \t     insert current time (localtime),

       \s     inserts operating system name,

       \u     resp.  \U  the current number of users which are currently logged in.  \U inserts "n users", where
              as \u only inserts "n".

       \v     inserts operating system version (uname -v).

EXAMPLE

       "Linux eos i386 #1 Tue Mar 19 21:54:09 MET 1996" was produced by putting "\s \n \m \v" into /etc/issue.

FILES

       /etc/issue, /var/run/utmp.

SEE ALSO

       mgetty(8), agetty(8).

AUTHOR

       Copyright  ©  1996  Florian  La   Roche   <laroche@redhat.com>.    Man-page   written   by   David   Frey
       <David.Frey@eos.lugs.ch> and Florian La Roche.