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TTYTAB()							      TTYTAB()

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 ter‐
       minal  device with /dev stripped off, and type tells the type of termi‐
       nal to initialize the TERM environment 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 sys‐
       tem identification 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  initialization  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)

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