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32.\" @(#)getty.8 6.6 (Berkeley) 4/25/91 |
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34.Dd April 25, 1991 |
35.Dt GETTY 8 36.Os BSD 4 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm getty 39.Nd set terminal mode 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.Nm getty 42.Oo --- 13 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 56.Ar tty 57is the special device file in 58.Pa /dev 59to open for the terminal (for example, ``ttyh0''). 60If there is no argument or the argument is 61.Ql Fl , 62the tty line is assumed to be open as file descriptor 0. 63.Pp |
64The 65.Ar type 66argument can be used to make 67.Nm getty 68treat the terminal line specially. 69This argument is used as an index into the 70.Nm gettytab 5 71database, to determine the characteristics of the line. --- 34 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 106lines are either not configured into the system, the associated device 107was not attached during boot-time system configuration, 108or the special file in 109.Pa /dev 110does not exist. 111.El 112.Sh FILES 113.Bl -tag -width /etc/gettytab -compact |
114.It Pa /etc/gettytab 115.El 116.Sh SEE ALSO |
117.Xr gettytab 5 , 118.Xr init 8 , 119.Xr login 1 , 120.Xr ioctl 2 , 121.Xr tty 4 , 122.Xr ttys 5 123.Sh HISTORY 124A 125.Nm getty 126program appeared in 127.At v6 . |