NAME
ttytab - table of login terminals
SYNOPSIS
/etc/ttytab
DESCRIPTION
The ttytab file lists all the terminal devices that one can
login on. It is a simple text file that contains lines of
the form:
name type "getty" "init"
The name and type fields are simple words, name is the name
of the terminal device with /dev stripped off, and type
tells the type of terminal to initialize the TERM environ-
ment variable.
The getty and init fields may name commands that are run to
allow one to login on the line, or to initialize the line.
Both these fields may be more than one word if the whole
field is enclosed in double quotes. Getty is usually simply
the word getty, the command that prints a system identifica-
tion banner and allows on to type a name to log in. Init is
usually an stty command to set the baud rate and parity of a
serial line.
The init field may be omitted to indicate that no initiali-
zation is necessary, and the getty field may be left out to
not start a login process. Terminals should not be left
out, because their place in the ttytab file determines their
slot number as returned by ttyslot(3).
Comments (introduced by #) and empty lines are ignored.
EXAMPLE
A ttytab for the console, two serial lines, and a pseudo tty
entry:
console minix getty
tty00 vt100 getty "stty 9600"
tty01 dialup getty "stty 38400"
ttyp0 network
ENVIRONMENT
TERM Terminal type
NOTES
It is customary to set the type to dialup for a dialin line.
One can check for that name in one's .profile.
SEE ALSO
getttyent(3), ttyslot(3), init(8).
AUTHOR
Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)