Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 23:43:17 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@bayouhome.net> Cc: Chris Smith <chris.smith@raytheon.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP! - Clearing screen on logout Message-ID: <392CCB85.ACDAF4C3@gorean.org> References: <959158168.392b97980978e@www.tdyc.com> <20000524215510.A981@gforce.johnson.home>
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Glenn Johnson wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 01:49:28AM -0700, Chris Smith wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can anyone tell me _explicitly_ how to clear the screen when a user
> > logs out (or when a getty starts)? I know it's in the gettytab man
> > page, but I cant get it to work. I've probably incorrectly played
> > with the cl option?!?
>
> Put a "\f" after the "im=" for the default entry in /etc/gettytab. So it
> would look like this:
>
> default:\
> :cb:ce:ck:lc:fd#1000:im=\f\r\n%s/%m (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\n:sp#1200:
>
> The \f does a form feed.
FWIW, that's fine if all you want to do is clear what's visible on the
screen. This technique does not clear the scrollback buffer. There was a
thread about how to do that a while back... unfortunately I don't
remember what the most efficient way to do it was. I think that adding a
lot of \f's would probably do it, but I seem to recall someone coming up
with a more elegant solution....
HTH,
Doug
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