July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
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Chapter 3: Linux Commands
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comma-separated list of rates through which agetty will step.
Optionally, you may specify the term, which is used to override the
TERM environment variable.
Options
-f file
Specify the use of file instead of /etc/issue upon connection to
terminal. It is overridden by -i.
-h Specify hardware, not software, flow control.
-H hostname
Write login hostname into the utmp file. By default, no login
host is specified.
-I string
Specify string to be sent to the tty or modem.
-i Suppress printing of /etc/issue before printing the login
prompt.
-l program
Specify the use of program instead of /bin/login.
-L Do not require carrier detect; operate locally only. Use this
when connecting terminals.
-m Attempt to guess the appropriate baud rate.
-n Don’t prompt for a login name.
-t timeout
Specify that agetty should exit if the open on the line succeeds
and there is no response to the login prompt in timeout
seconds.
-w Wait for carriage return or linefeed before sending login
prompt. Use when sending an initialization string.
alsactl
alsactl [options] [store|restore] card
Controls advanced configuration settings for sound cards using the
ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) system. Settings are
written to configuration files using the store function and loaded
from those files with ...
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