Re: login clear screen

[Oleg Krivosheev <kriol@fnal.gov>]

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 mingetty and put something like this in /etc/inittab

# /sbin/getty invocations for the runlevels.
#
# The "id" field MUST be the same as the last
# characters of the device (after "tty").
#
# Format:
#  <id>:<runlevels>:<action>:<process>
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:23:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:23:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4


OK

ps does anyone know why mingetty is not default on VCs?