*- On 31 Jul, Ed Cogburn wrote about "Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)" > Mark Wagnon wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >> I'm curious about the answer to Salman Ahmed's first question >> too. > > > I suggested using 'mingetty' as it by default will clear the > screen at logout. Its also smaller than the default getty (I'm > pretty sure). >
Yep! # ls -l /sbin/getty /sbin/mingetty 14 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13228 Jun 24 20:27 /sbin/getty* 9 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8232 Nov 22 1997 /sbin/mingetty* You could also add a vt escape code to the top of the /etc/issue if mingetty is not an option. clear > /tmp/clear.txt # clear is in ncurses-bin cat /tmp/clear.txt /etc/issue > /etc/issue.clear mv /etc/issue /etc/issue.noclear mv /etc/issue.clear /etc/issue -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
