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1.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
3.\"
4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
6.\" are met:
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25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
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27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
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32.\" from: @(#)getty.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
33.\" $FreeBSD: head/libexec/getty/getty.8 79754 2001-07-15 07:53:42Z dd $
33.\" $FreeBSD: head/libexec/getty/getty.8 99500 2002-07-06 19:19:48Z charnier $
34.\" "
35.Dd June 4, 1993
36.Dt GETTY 8
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm getty
40.Nd set terminal mode
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.Nm
43.Oo
44.Ar type
45.Op Ar tty
46.Oc
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Nm
34.\" "
35.Dd June 4, 1993
36.Dt GETTY 8
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm getty
40.Nd set terminal mode
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.Nm
43.Oo
44.Ar type
45.Op Ar tty
46.Oc
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Nm
50program
51is called by
50utility is called by
52.Xr init 8
53to open and initialize the tty line, read a login name, and invoke
54.Xr login 1 .
55.Pp
56The argument
57.Ar tty
58is the special device file in
59.Pa /dev

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87Most of the default actions of
88.Nm
89can be circumvented, or modified, by a suitable
90.Pa gettytab
91table.
92.Pp
93The
94.Nm
51.Xr init 8
52to open and initialize the tty line, read a login name, and invoke
53.Xr login 1 .
54.Pp
55The argument
56.Ar tty
57is the special device file in
58.Pa /dev

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86Most of the default actions of
87.Nm
88can be circumvented, or modified, by a suitable
89.Pa gettytab
90table.
91.Pp
92The
93.Nm
95program
96can be set to timeout after some interval,
94utility can be set to timeout after some interval,
97which will cause dial up lines to hang up
98if the login name is not entered reasonably quickly.
99.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
100.Bl -diag
101.It "ttyxx: No such device or address."
102.It "ttyxx: No such file or address."
103.Pp
104A terminal which is turned

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121.Xr ioctl 2 ,
122.Xr tty 4 ,
123.Xr gettytab 5 ,
124.Xr ttys 5 ,
125.Xr init 8
126.Sh HISTORY
127A
128.Nm
95which will cause dial up lines to hang up
96if the login name is not entered reasonably quickly.
97.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
98.Bl -diag
99.It "ttyxx: No such device or address."
100.It "ttyxx: No such file or address."
101.Pp
102A terminal which is turned

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119.Xr ioctl 2 ,
120.Xr tty 4 ,
121.Xr gettytab 5 ,
122.Xr ttys 5 ,
123.Xr init 8
124.Sh HISTORY
125A
126.Nm
129program appeared in
127utility appeared in
130.At v6 .
128.At v6 .