Re: How to clear screen before login prompt

[Brandon Mitchell <bhmit1@mail.wm.edu>]

On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Jieyao wrote:

> I was trying to do a clear screen after I logout from the console before the
login 
> prompt appears.

A better twist on all the clear suggestions that are shell specific:

$ clear >new.issue
$ edit new.issue # whatever editor you want
$ mv new.issue /etc/issue

Note that I put a lot of returns before the clear so that I can
<shift>-<pg up> to see what happened before I got logged out.  I simple
change of vt's prevents someone else from doing this.  This also prevents
a cleared screen after a closed telnet, something I don't like.

HTH,
Brandon

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