FGETTY

Section: System Administrator's Manual (8) Updated: 2002-01-19 Local index Up

NAME

fgetty - a small getty for linux

SYNOPSIS

fgetty tty [--noclear] [--long-hostname]

DESCRIPTION

The command fgetty is normally invoked by init(8), opens a tty port, prompts for a login name and invokes the /bin/login command.

OPTIONS

--noclear makes fgetty not clear the screen before displaying the login prompt.

--long-hostname makes fgetty display the full hostname in the login prompt.

FILES

/etc/issue	printed before the login prompt
/etc/inittab	init(8) configuration file
/var/run/utmp	the system status file

ISSUE ESCAPES

The issue-file (/etc/issue or the file may contain certain escape codes to display the system name, date and time etc. All escape codes consist of a backslash (\) immediately followed by one of the letters explained below.

d: the current date. (eg: 2002-01-19)
s: the system name, the name of the operating system. (eg: Linux)
l: the name of the current tty line. (eg: tty3)
m: the architecture identifier of the machine (eg: i586)
n: the nodename of the machine, also known as the hostname. (eg: sirius)
o: the domainname of the machine. (eg: (none))
r: the release number of the OS. (eg: 2.4.3-i)
t: the current time. (eg: 14:51:51)
u: the number of current users logged in. (eg: 4)
U: the string "1 user" or "<n> users", where <n> is the number of current users logged in. (eg: 4 users)
v: Insert the version of the OS. (eg: #2 Fre Jan 18 23:05:45 CET 2002)

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

HOST	is set to your hostname
TERM	is set to linux
TTY	is set to the current tty line

RETURN VALUES

1	could not chown/chmod tty device
3	could not open tty device
4	not a typewriter
5	vhangup failed
6	could not open tty (can't happen)
7	dup failed
8	could not exec login
9	read returned an unexpected error
10	unprintable character in login name
11	login name too long (>40)
13	user name started with a dash
23	received SIGQUIT

AUTHOR

Felix von Leitner <felix-fgetty@fefe.de>

Homepage: http://www.fefe.de/fgetty/

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