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| author | perry <perry@NetBSD.org> | 1997-07-31 00:06:20 +0000 |
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| committer | perry <perry@NetBSD.org> | 1997-07-31 00:06:20 +0000 |
| commit | 365cb9dcc81abeb2b4f6194585f5b2575ed2fde8 (patch) | |
| tree | e2fdc35c4638871d0095887c95f3f1f9e497f9ca /libexec | |
| parent | 50633bf9a82f71b4e5e302c7463f31b0f10a3478 (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.8 | 18 |
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 . |
