From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 16 12:03:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA06741 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 12:03:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from apollo.COSC.GOV (root@apollo.COSC.GOV [198.94.103.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA06726 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 12:03:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from vince@localhost) by apollo.COSC.GOV (8.7.3/8.6.9) id MAA15089; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 12:02:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 12:02:51 -0800 (PST) From: -Vince- To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: Timothy Brown , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Screen clearing in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 15 Jan 1996, Doug White wrote: > 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. All I do, is logout, hit CTRL-L and then enter and it will appear as no one has logged on before =) Cheers, -Vince- vince@COSC.GOV - GUS Mailing Lists Admin - http://www.COSC.GOV/~vince UC Berkeley AstroPhysics - Electrical Engineering (Honorary B.S.) Chabot Observatory & Science Center - Board of Advisors Running FreeBSD - Real UN*X for Free! Linda Wong/Vivian Chow/Hacken Lee/Danny Chan/Priscilla Chan Fan Club Mailing Lists Admin