Re: login clear screen
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Ethan Benson wrote:
: hello,
:
: I searched the archives and did not find anything on this...
:
: on redhat the login program clears the screen when it is spawned or
: when too many login failures occur etc, this leaves the consoles
: cleared displaying just a single login prompt. personally I like
: this, and miss it in Debian (to which I am in the process of
: switching to)
:
: I did not find any options for debian's login to clear the screen...
: (if there is one somewhere i'd like to know)
:
: is the clear screen behavior considered annoying or obnoxious by
: debian folks or is it just that nobody ever implemented it?
Install package "mingetty" and edit /etc/inittab to taste. I guess
agetty is the default because it supports console on serial ports - it's
not clear to me why anything other than mingetty is needed for VCs.
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