From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 14 6:17:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from eagle.phc.igs.net (eagle.phc.igs.net [207.210.17.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A70414D7A for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 06:17:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eagle@phc.igs.net) Received: from localhost (eagle@localhost) by eagle.phc.igs.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA86711; Fri, 14 May 1999 08:16:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from eagle@phc.igs.net) X-Authentication-Warning: eagle.phc.igs.net: eagle owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 08:16:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Rob Garrett To: Sue Blake Cc: rick hamell , "K. Marsh" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clearing scrollback at logout [was: Newbie tip] In-Reply-To: <19990514124114.42522@welearn.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 14 May 1999, Sue Blake wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 07:20:18PM -0700, rick hamell wrote: > > > > > you're leaving behind. Making the screen look like you were never there > > > is pretty meaningless, unless you're trying to hide the fact that you > > > logged in from a moron. > > > > No, you're trying to hide important information that may still be > > displayed. :) Stuff that others can use to hack in. Granted, I agree with > > you, this is a bit paranoid. :) > > So as you log out, cat a huge text file, then do a 'clear' ad lib. > The Handbook and FAQ are excellent candidates. > > > -- > just add clear to logout and be done with it.. rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message