NAME
	sleeping-getty - Do not start a fullblown getty before it is necessary

SYNOPSIS
	sleeping-getty VTNO GETTY_COMMAND...

DESCRIPTION
	sleeping-getty shall wait until VTNO (a number of a virtual terminal)
	becomes the foreground console. Then, it shall execvp(3) to GETTY_COMMAND,
	with GETTY_COMMAND and all following arguments as the command line
	arguments.

	Note that sleeping-getty works on VT:s, not TTY:s. It cannot wait for a
	serial console to become, active, only virtual terminals.

EXAMPLE
	/sbin/sleeping-getty 15 /sbin/got tty15 TERM=linux

	/sbin/sleeping-getty 16 /sbin/got tty16 TERM=linux

	/sbin/sleeping-getty 20 /sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty20 linux

NOTES
	sleeping-getty does not acquire the TTY. That would be a waste
	of CPU cycles. This means, if naïvely used, that if you start
	your computer, log in on tty1, and start X, and have startx
	configured to start X on the next available VT. X will start
	on VT 2. This is probably not want you want. Instead you
	should edit startx to ensure that a VT lower than a preferred
	number (customarily 7) will not be used.

RATIONALE
	It is nice to have a score or two of TTY:s available. However,
	starting them, can require some unnecessary CPU time and will
	was memory until they are actually used. This becomes extra
	important on resource contained machines.

SEE ALSO
	getty(8), mingetty(8), agetty(8), got(8), vtchs(1), inittab(5)