Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On 31 Jul, Ed Cogburn wrote about "Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)"
> Mark Wagnon wrote:
>> 
>> [snip]
>>
>> I'm curious about the answer to Salman Ahmed's first question
>> too.
> 
> 
> 	I suggested using 'mingetty' as it by default will clear the
> screen at logout.  Its also smaller than the default getty (I'm
> pretty sure).
> 

Yep!

# ls -l /sbin/getty /sbin/mingetty
  14 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        13228 Jun 24 20:27 /sbin/getty*
   9 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         8232 Nov 22  1997 /sbin/mingetty*


You could also add a vt escape code to the top of the /etc/issue if
mingetty is not an option.  

clear > /tmp/clear.txt       # clear is in ncurses-bin
cat /tmp/clear.txt /etc/issue > /etc/issue.clear
mv /etc/issue /etc/issue.noclear
mv /etc/issue.clear /etc/issue

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Brian 
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