Re: clear screen on logout
Karl Ferguson wrote:
>
> At 12:32 PM 29/04/97 -0400, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> >mgetty, agetty & mingetty use /etc/issue (by default, though this
> >is of course configurable for mgetty and agetty) rather than motd.
> >(I wonder what uses /etc/motd?) So, you can run (as root, of course):
> >
> >clear >> /etc/issue
> >
> >(no need to save original issue, as ">>" appends to the file rather
> >than writing over it).
>
> This won't work right - >> appends to the end of the file and what'll
> happen is that the issue will spit out and then clear with "name login: "
>
Ah yes, very important! Rather:
(clear; cat /etc/issue) > /etc/issue.new ; mv /etc/issue.new /etc/issue
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Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com
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