From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 20 0: 6:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dell.dannyland.org (dsl092-007-150.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.7.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94BA837B406 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 00:06:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyman@toldme.com) Received: by dell.dannyland.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id DAB515C68; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 00:06:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 00:06:40 -0700 From: dannyman To: Matthew Emmerton Cc: Greg , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Configuring console Message-ID: <20010820000640.I2048@toldme.com> References: <005901c109dc$6c0c8720$0501a8c0@sprintbbd.net> <009601c1282f$61caf730$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <009601c1282f$61caf730$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>; from matt@gsicomp.on.ca on Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 05:47:30PM -0400 X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 05:47:30PM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > How do I configure console to clear screen before it displays login > > prompt? I know how to do it during logout but how to do it when > > booting up? > > I usually create an /etc/issue file with one character - a CTRL-L. > This has the effect of clearing the screen before displaying a login > prompt (under cons25 and vt100 emulations, at least.) If you're using > FreeBSD 4.2 or earlier, you'll have to edit /etc/gettytab for this to > work. What is /etc/issue and why/how do you need to edit gettytab to use it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message