From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 24 18:07:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4585D16A4CE for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 18:07:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from pd5mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29BBD43D31 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 18:07:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from flowers@users.sourceforge.net) Received: from pd5mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (pd5mr4so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.168]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HV4006LE0JSE2@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 19:07:04 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml4so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.148]) by pd5mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0HV4002SF0JJ8X30@pd5mr4so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 19:06:55 -0700 (MST) Received: from sirius (h68-144-47-89.cg.shawcable.net [68.144.47.89]) 2003))freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 19:07:03 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 19:06:58 -0700 From: Dan MacMillan In-reply-to: <441xniavcy.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> To: Lowell Gilbert , Dan MacMillan Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal cc: Chris Pressey cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Eric F Crist Subject: RE: Virtual terminal buffer? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 02:07:05 -0000 > From: Lowell Gilbert > Sent: March 24, 2004 12:39 > > Dan MacMillan writes: > > > > From: Chris Pressey > > > Sent: March 22, 2004 17:52 > > > > > > On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:57:26 -0600 (CST) > > > Eric F Crist wrote: > > > > > > > Is there a way to clear the buffer after you've logged out of a > > > > virtual terminal? > > > > > > Well, you could call 'echo' a hundred times in your .logout script :) > > > > I have found that a single call to 'clear' works almost as well. > > "Almost" but not quite; on the console, there's a history buffer with > scrollback. Yeah, I realized afterwards I hadn't quite understood what Eric was looking for. This is very educational. :) -Dan