clean up .Nm entries, and change a silly .Nm gettytab 5 to an .Xr

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perry 1997-07-31 00:06:20 +00:00
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.\" $NetBSD: getty.8,v 1.4 1996/07/31 20:40:27 thorpej Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: getty.8,v 1.5 1997/07/31 00:06:20 perry Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
.Oc
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm getty
.Nm
program
is called by
.Xr init 8
@ -66,10 +66,10 @@ the tty line is assumed to be open as file descriptor 0.
The
.Ar type
argument can be used to make
.Nm getty
.Nm
treat the terminal line specially.
This argument is used as an index into the
.Nm gettytab 5
.Xr gettytab 5
database, to determine the characteristics of the line.
If there is no argument, or there is no such table, the
.Em default
@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ If there is no
.Pa /etc/gettytab
a set of system defaults is used.
If indicated by the table located,
.Nm getty
.Nm
will clear the terminal screen,
print a banner heading,
and prompt for a login name.
@ -86,13 +86,13 @@ Usually either the banner or the login prompt will include
the system hostname.
.Pp
Most of the default actions of
.Nm getty
.Nm
can be circumvented, or modified, by a suitable
.Nm gettytab
.Xr gettytab 5
table.
.Pp
The
.Nm getty
.Nm
program
can be set to timeout after some interval,
which will cause dial up lines to hang up
@ -124,6 +124,6 @@ does not exist.
.Xr ttys 5
.Sh HISTORY
A
.Nm getty
.Nm
program appeared in
.At v6 .