NAME

     getty - system login banner


SYNOPSIS

     getty [banner ...]


DESCRIPTION

     Getty displays a system identification banner, reads a  user
     name  from  standard input and executes login with that name
     as argument.

     Getty uses its arguments separated  by  spaces  as  a  login
     banner.   The  character sequences \n, \s and \t are printed
     as newline, space and tab.  Any other \x prints that x.  The
     character  sequences %s, %n, etc. produce the same output as
     uname -s, uname -n, etc.  The default banner is

          %s\s\sRelease\s%r\sVersion\s%v\n\n%n\slogin:\s


SEE ALSO

     ttytab(5), init(8).


AUTHOR

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