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Date:      Fri, 8 Feb 2002 19:11:55 -0800 (PST)
From:      Andrew Gould <andrewgould@yahoo.com>
To:        Ken Bolingbroke <hacker@bolingbroke.com>, Skull Crusher <skull@slayer-domain.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how to clear the screen while logging off
Message-ID:  <20020209031155.42851.qmail@web13401.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020208185905.G91586-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com>

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--- Ken Bolingbroke <hacker@bolingbroke.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Skull Crusher wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > Is there a way to clear the screen as you log off
> besides just typing
> > CLEAR and then type EXIT
> > What I would like it to look like is just like the
> normal logon screen
> > where it just says FreeBSD/i386
> (blah.blah.blah.com) ttyvX
> > If you know what I mean..
> 
> If your shell executes a logout script, stick a
> 'clear' statement in that.
> I use tcsh which uses ~/.logout for individual users
> and /etc/csh.logout
> for systemwide.
> 
> Ken Bolingbroke
> hacker@bolingbroke.com

For the bash shell, put the 'clear' statement in
~/.bash_logout.

As root, you can then copy the .bash_logout file to
/usr/share/skel/dot.bash_logout to automatically
install the file in new users' home directories.

Best of luck,

Andrew Gould

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