fbgetty8

Usage

Overview

fbgetty is a getty for use on virtual consoles with framebuffer support like mingetty(8), fbgetty is not suitable for serial lines.

Options

-t, --tty

set tty device

-f, --fb --framebuffer

set framebuffer device

-i, --issue

set issue file

-l, --login-program

set login program

-p --login-prompt

set login prompt

-o, --login-timeout

set login timeout

--version

show version

--help

show help

Issue escapes

fbgetty recognizes the following escape sequences which might be embedded in the /etc/issue file:

@system

display OS name (will certainly be Linux)

@version

display OS version

@release

display OS release

@architecture

@arch

display host architecture

@tty

@line

@vt

display tty where fbgetty run

@hostname

display hostname

@domain

display domain

@FQDN

display Full Qualified Domain Name (e.g. hostname + domainname)

@user

display number of users connected

@users

display number of users with format %d user(s)

@loadavg

display load average

@date

display date

@time

display time (24H)

@uptime

display uptime

@include

include some other issue file

@image

display an image

@distname

Show distribution name (Redhat Debian Suse ...)

@distver

Display distribution version

$...

display shell variable

\a

echo alert (bell)

\b

echo backspace

\e

\E

echo escape char

\f

echo formfeed

\n

echo new line

\r

echo carriage return

\t

echo horizontal tab

\v

echo vertical tab

\ooo

echo character with octal code ooo

\xhh

echo character with hexadecimal code hh

%d

insert current day (localtime),

%l

insert line on which fbgetty is running,

%m

inserts machine architecture (uname -m),

%n

inserts machine's network node hostname (uname -n),

%o

inserts domain name,

%r

inserts operating system release (uname -r),

%t

insert current time (localtime),

%s

inserts operating system name,

%u

insert the number of users currently logged in,

%U

insert "n user" or "n users" according to the value of n, where n is the number of user currently logged in,

%v

inserts operating system version (uname -v).

Files

/etc/issue, /var/run/utmp, /etc/fbgetty, /etc/fbgetty.d/global, /etc/fbgetty.d/tty[1-63].