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authorperry <perry@NetBSD.org>1997-07-31 00:06:20 +0000
committerperry <perry@NetBSD.org>1997-07-31 00:06:20 +0000
commit365cb9dcc81abeb2b4f6194585f5b2575ed2fde8 (patch)
treee2fdc35c4638871d0095887c95f3f1f9e497f9ca /libexec
parent50633bf9a82f71b4e5e302c7463f31b0f10a3478 (diff)
clean up .Nm entries, and change a silly .Nm gettytab 5 to an .Xr
Diffstat (limited to 'libexec')
-rw-r--r--libexec/getty/getty.818
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/libexec/getty/getty.8 b/libexec/getty/getty.8
index 22d91c098fe..3aecf89936b 100644
--- a/libexec/getty/getty.8
+++ b/libexec/getty/getty.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: getty.8,v 1.4 1996/07/31 20:40:27 thorpej Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: getty.8,v 1.5 1997/07/31 00:06:20 perry Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
.Oc
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
-.Nm getty
+.Nm
program
is called by
.Xr init 8
@@ -66,10 +66,10 @@ the tty line is assumed to be open as file descriptor 0.
The
.Ar type
argument can be used to make
-.Nm getty
+.Nm
treat the terminal line specially.
This argument is used as an index into the
-.Nm gettytab 5
+.Xr gettytab 5
database, to determine the characteristics of the line.
If there is no argument, or there is no such table, the
.Em default
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ If there is no
.Pa /etc/gettytab
a set of system defaults is used.
If indicated by the table located,
-.Nm getty
+.Nm
will clear the terminal screen,
print a banner heading,
and prompt for a login name.
@@ -86,13 +86,13 @@ Usually either the banner or the login prompt will include
the system hostname.
.Pp
Most of the default actions of
-.Nm getty
+.Nm
can be circumvented, or modified, by a suitable
-.Nm gettytab
+.Xr gettytab 5
table.
.Pp
The
-.Nm getty
+.Nm
program
can be set to timeout after some interval,
which will cause dial up lines to hang up
@@ -124,6 +124,6 @@ does not exist.
.Xr ttys 5
.Sh HISTORY
A
-.Nm getty
+.Nm
program appeared in
.At v6 .