Re: Clear screan question
"Sander Smeenk (CistroN Medewerker)" wrote:
>
> Quoting wes schreiner (wes@infosink.com):
>
> > Not that I can see, though I'd love to know of a clean way to clear the
> > scroll-back buffer. I agree it's a bit hackish. Can anyone come up
> > with something better?
>
> Ehm.. I did this:
>
> knopje# echo -e "\033[2J\033[1;1H" > issue.new
> knopje# cat /etc/issue >> issue.new
> knopje# mv issue.new /etc/issue
>
> And now when i log out from consoles the screen clears and the scrollback
> buffer is empty.. The \0332J is ANSI for Clear Screen and \033[1;1H is ANSI
> for place cursor on x1 y1...
>
> Works for me...
Tried it, but this only clears the immediately visible screen for me,
not the scroll-back buffer. I'm using mgetty, are you using mingetty or
some other *getty? Maybe that's the difference. If so, then Ethan's vt
switching method is better because it doesn't depend on the getty.
wes
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