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Re: clearing screen after logout & login screen



On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 12:04:20AM +0000, Steven Udell wrote:
> stick@richnet.net wrote:
> > 
> > jim r said
> > > How do I clear the screen after logout? so...instead of walking up on
> > > the remnants of the X server terminating and a login prompt, all that
> > > shows on the screen is the login prompt... what script is it?
> > >
> > Personally, I don't like the shell-specific solutions.  As system
> > administer I like having this sort of configuration as simple as possible.
> 
> Wouldn't a better solution be for "exit" to clear the screen?
> As if you mess with the /etc/issue after booting, it will clear
> what is shown....
> 
> Anyone know how to add a clear screen to the exit command?

As has been stated before; in .bash_profile or /etc/profile use

trap clear EXIT

> 
> Steve Udell
> hettar@teleport.com
> lowrent.org/ooog
> 
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