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1.1       root        1: .TH TTYS 5  "18 July 1983"
                      2: .SH NAME
                      3: ttys \- terminal initialization data
                      4: .SH DESCRIPTION
                      5: The
                      6: .I ttys
                      7: file is read by the
                      8: .I init
                      9: program and specifies which terminal special files are to have
                     10: a process created for them so that people can log in.
                     11: There is one line in the 
                     12: .I ttys
                     13: file per special file.
                     14: .PP
                     15: The first character of a line in the 
                     16: .I ttys
                     17: file is either `0' or `1'.  If the first character on the line is a `0', the 
                     18: .I init
                     19: program ignores that line.  If the first character on the line is a `1', the
                     20: .I init
                     21: program creates a login process for that line.
                     22: The second character on each line is used as an argument to
                     23: .IR getty (8),
                     24: which performs such tasks as baud-rate recognition, reading the login name,
                     25: and calling
                     26: .I login.
                     27: For normal lines, the character is `0';
                     28: other characters can be used, for example, with hard-wired terminals
                     29: where speed recognition is unnecessary or which have special characteristics.
                     30: .RI ( Getty
                     31: will have to be fixed in such cases.)
                     32: The remainder of the line is the terminal's entry in the device directory, /dev.
                     33: .SH FILES
                     34: /etc/ttys
                     35: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     36: gettytab(5), init(8), getty(8), login(1)

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