mingetty - minimal getty for consoles

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

Debian-Local                                       6 Apr 1996                                        MINGETTY(8)

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.

       "Linuxeosi386#1TueMar1921:54:09MET1996" was produced by putting "\s\n\m\v" into /etc/issue.

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

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).

       mingetty - minimal getty for consoles

--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.

       --nice10
              Change the priority by calling nice().

       --delay5
              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.

       --autologinusername
              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.

mgetty(8), agetty(8).

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