On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone tell me why debian 1.3.1 uses agetty, instead of something like > mingetty? > > I wish to screen to clear after booting my system but using agetty this is not > possible, I have tried using mingetty and this does what I require, but I am > wondering if there is anyreason agetty was chosen (i.e Does it support some > features mingetty does not, when used for virtual consoles)?
It is possible with agetty, since I am using it and I managed to get it to clear the screen. Somewhere in /etc/init.d there is a file that rebuilds your /etc/issue every time you boot the system. I think it is /etc/init.d/boot. You can find it with "grep issue /etc/init.d/*". Change the code that rewrites /etc/issue to, for example, this: # Rewrite the file /etc/issue echo -e \\033[H\\033[J > /etc/issue cat <<EOF >> /etc/issue Welcome to \\n.\\o at \\l This system runs \\s \\r on \\m EOF The first 'echo' command puts codes in /etc/issue that will clear the VC. the rest puts a nice banner on the screen. For some reason you have to use double backslashes instead of single backslashes. I think it has to do with bash. Look at the "issue escapes" section in the man page for getty to see what you can do with this. Remco -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
