From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 18 14:54:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts13.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C33A837B401 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 14:54:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([64.228.155.124]) by tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20010818215433.PQBT28468.tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 17:54:33 -0400 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f7ILpvc73703; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 17:51:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <009601c1282f$61caf730$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Greg" , References: <005901c109dc$6c0c8720$0501a8c0@sprintbbd.net> Subject: Re: Configuring console Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 17:47:30 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > How do I configure console to clear screen before it displays login prompt? > I know how to do it during logout but how to do it when booting up? I usually create an /etc/issue file with one character - a CTRL-L. This has the effect of clearing the screen before displaying a login prompt (under cons25 and vt100 emulations, at least.) If you're using FreeBSD 4.2 or earlier, you'll have to edit /etc/gettytab for this to work. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message