Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 08:40:18 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: jw <jwdevel@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: clear old output in login screen? Message-ID: <20090503204018.GB66094@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <fa8771800905031146v51a8b752ra125f68a2520da4f@mail.gmail.com> References: <fa8771800905031146v51a8b752ra125f68a2520da4f@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 11:46:30AM -0700, jw wrote:
> Currently, if I log in, do some work, then log out (from plain TTY, no
> X/SSH/etc), the output of my previous session is still readable above
> the new "login: " prompt. One can use scroll lock to view even more.
>
> How do I get it to clear the screen (and the scroll buffer) when the
> login prompt gets redisplayed?
If you're using tcsh, you can put the following into ~/.logout:
clear
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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