.TH GETTY 8

.SH NAME

getty \- system login banner

.SH SYNOPSIS

.B getty

.RI [ banner " ...]"

.SH DESCRIPTION

.B Getty

displays a system identification banner, reads a user name from standard

input and executes

.B login

with that name as argument.

.PP

.B Getty

uses its arguments separated by spaces as a login banner. The character

sequences

.BR \en ,

.BR \es

and

.BR \et

are printed as newline, space and tab. Any other

.BI \e x

prints that

.IR x .

The character sequences

.BR %s ,

.BR %n ,

etc. produce the same output as

.BR "uname \-s" ,

.BR "uname \-n" ,

etc. The default banner is

.PP

.RS

%s\es\esRelease\es%r\esVersion\es%v\en\en%n\eslogin:\es

.RE

.SH "SEE ALSO"

.BR ttytab (5),

.BR init (8).

.SH AUTHOR

Kees J. Bot <kjb@cs.vu.nl>