TTYS(5)                 COMMAND REFERENCE                 TTYS(5)



NAME
     ttys - terminal initialization data

DESCRIPTION
     The ttys file is read by the init program and specifies
     which terminal special files are to have a process created
     for them so that people can log in.  Each terminal special
     file is a one-line entry in the ttys file.

     The first character of a line in the ttys file is either `0'
     or `1'.  If the first character on the line is a `0', the
     init program ignores that line.  If the first character on
     the line is a `1', the init program creates a login process
     for that line.  The second character on each line is used as
     an argument to getty(8), which performs such tasks as baud-
     rate recognition, reading the login name, and calling login.
     For normal lines, the character is `0'; other characters can
     be used, for example, with hard-wired terminals where speed
     recognition is unnecessary or which have special
     characteristics.  (Getty will have to be fixed in such
     cases.) The remainder of the line is the terminal's entry in
     the device directory, /dev.

FILES
     /etc/ttys

SEE ALSO
     login(1), gettytab(5), getty(8), and init(8).



























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