NAME

ttys − terminal initialization data

DESCRIPTION

The ttys file contains information that is used by various routines to initialize and control the use of terminal special files. This information is read with the getttyent(3) library routines. There is one line in the ttys file per special file.  Fields are separated by tabs and/or spaces.  Some fields may contain more than one word and should be enclosed in double quotes.  Blank lines and comments can appear anywhere in the file; comments are delimited by ‘#’ and new line. Unspecified fields default to null. 

The first field is the terminal’s entry in the device directory, /dev.  The second field of the file is not used on TITAN; use   or none to indicate a null entry.  The third field is the type of terminal normally connected to that tty line, as found in the termcap(5) data base file.

The remaining fields set flags in the ty_status entry (see getttyent(3)), but are not used on TITAN.  If the line ends in a comment, the comment is included in the ty_comment field of the ttyent structure. 

Some examples:

consolenonevt100
ttyd0nonedialup
ttyh0nonehp2621-nl
ttyh1noneplugboard
ttyp0nonenetwork
ttyp1nonenetwork
ttyv0nonexterms

FILES

/etc/ttys

SEE ALSO

getttyent(3), tset(1)

September 02, 1992