On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > If you use mingetty instead of getty, the screen will be cleared by > default (I prefer this too). Change the lines for the various virtual > consoles to look like: Or you could use fbgetty instead of mingetty. Both have annoying features: mingetty is braindead when it comes to resizing the screen, and it is dead upstream, I believe. fbgetty is too zealous in clearing the screen :-) > >2) How can I figure out the "code name" for my distribution? I'm cat /etc/debian_version might help you, as well. I don't know if it's there in older releases, but woody has it. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
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