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From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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On Mon, 15 Jan 1996, Timothy Brown wrote:

> This is driving me buggy.  I can't seem to get getty to clear the screen
> after I log out from a virtual terminal;  has anybody gotten this to 
> work?  I tried inserting :cl:'s in the gettytab...

You can do that?

All the virtual terminals I've seen don't clear the screen after logoff, 
and this is on four separate FreeBSD machines.

If you're really sticky about it try modifying the banner file (I don't 
remember the name, sorry, check login(1)) and put a bunch of carrige 
returns in the top.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major