Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:59:50 -0500 From: Joe Snikeris <joe@snikeris.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Clearing ttyv0 after boot Message-ID: <20b8a1c50907180359q332181cekc53519388ad78be2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200907172156.07685.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> References: <20b8a1c50907171911t625ef579rbde5cc84f071e9f1@mail.gmail.com> <200907172156.07685.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
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On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Mel Flynn<mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> wrote: > On Friday 17 July 2009 18:11:56 Joe Snikeris wrote: > >> As the subject suggests, I'd like to clear ttyv0 immediately after >> booting so that it looks exactly like the other ttys. =A0I suspect I >> might have to add a local rc script, but I'm fairly new to FreeBSD and >> am not sure if this is the correct way to go. >> >> Does anyone have any pointers? > > This recently came up on this list: > <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D83142+0+/usr/local/www/db/= text/2009/freebsd-questions/20090510.freebsd-questions> Thanks for the pointer to that thread. 'clear > /etc/issue' did it for me. > > To do this during at the end of rc stage take hints from > /etc/rc.d/syscons, the rc(8) manpage and rcorder(8) about when to launch > this script. Ideally you want to REQUIRE what the last script reported > by rcorder PROVIDEs and possibly delay execution a bit (see > /etc/rc.d/bgfsck for an example of that), since you can't really hook > into the "login prompt is now displayed" event. > > Also, if you want the console to stay the same, you will need to > configure /etc/syslog.conf and change the line that sends to /dev/console > to send it to /var/log/console.log. newsyslog.conf(5) is already > configured to rotate that log. > -- > Mel > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >
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