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authorcharnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>2002-07-06 19:19:48 +0000
committercharnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>2002-07-06 19:19:48 +0000
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parent26da445d07574246abb5617f3bb216069636355d (diff)
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The .Nm utility
Diffstat (limited to 'libexec/getty')
-rw-r--r--libexec/getty/getty.88
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/libexec/getty/getty.8 b/libexec/getty/getty.8
index fe9d879..bd16017 100644
--- a/libexec/getty/getty.8
+++ b/libexec/getty/getty.8
@@ -47,8 +47,7 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
-program
-is called by
+utility is called by
.Xr init 8
to open and initialize the tty line, read a login name, and invoke
.Xr login 1 .
@@ -92,8 +91,7 @@ table.
.Pp
The
.Nm
-program
-can be set to timeout after some interval,
+utility can be set to timeout after some interval,
which will cause dial up lines to hang up
if the login name is not entered reasonably quickly.
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
@@ -126,5 +124,5 @@ does not exist.
.Sh HISTORY
A
.Nm
-program appeared in
+utility appeared in
.At v6 .
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