.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>