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Date:      Wed, 02 Dec 1998 23:02:04 -0500
From:      "Steve Friedrich" <sfriedri@laker.net>
To:        "Guy Helmer" <ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov>, "Karl Pielorz" <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Userland feature request
Message-ID:  <199812030404.XAA29799@laker.net>

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On Wed, 2 Dec 1998 20:03:52 -0600 (CST), Guy Helmer wrote:

>Is there a way to clear the scrollback buffer?  When one logs out of the
>console, it would be good if someone else couldn't come along and see the
>last bits of what the previous user had been doing.  I've tried putting \f
>in the gettytab, but it doesn't seem to clear the scrollback buffer.


I put the following in a file called clrscreen in
/usr/local/mylastname:

#!/bin/sh
case `tty` in
	/dev/ttyv*) kbdcontrol -h 100 ; clear
esac

I added /usr/local/mylastname to my paths (and I updated the skeletons
in /usr/share/skel) and created a /etc/csh.logout with:
clrscreen

You'll need to figure a way to invoke it with other shells. ;o)


HTH



Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in
minutes.





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