From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 6 19:16:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38BCE37BFF1 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 19:16:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-216-180-72-75.dialup.hiwaay.net [216.180.72.75]) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e372GQS01521; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 21:16:26 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA12622; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 21:16:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <200004070216.VAA12622@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: William Freeman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: a boot config issue In-reply-to: Message from William Freeman of "Tue, 04 Apr 2000 21:57:13 EDT." <38EA9D79.E4AF292F@picusnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 21:16:24 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG William Freeman writes: > Hello, all. I've tried for a very long time to figure out how to do > this, but not knowing shell scripting is a pain. is there a way that i > can make the screen clear all the stuff that scrolls on bootup away > before the login prompt stuff on ttyv0? I beleive /etc/gettytab is what you are looking for. If you add a \f to the front of the "im" series in the default entry then the screen will do a form feed. default:\ :cb:ce:ck:lc:fd#1000:im=\r\n%s/%m (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\n:sp#1200: ^ insert \f before \r\n -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message