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Date:      Sun, 3 May 2009 22:51:42 +0200
From:      "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com>
To:        jw <jwdevel@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: clear old output in login screen?
Message-ID:  <3a142e750905031351n38d762b7v46b4eeb1faad4799@mail.gmail.com>
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References:  <fa8771800905031146v51a8b752ra125f68a2520da4f@mail.gmail.com>

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On 5/3/09, jw <jwdevel@gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently, if I log in, do some work, then log out (from plain TTY, no
> X/SSH/etc), the output of my previous session is still readable above
> the new "login: " prompt. One can use scroll lock to view even more.
>
> How do I get it to clear the screen (and the scroll buffer) when the
> login prompt gets redisplayed?

My /etc/csh.logout and /etc/csh.login contains:

echo $TERM | grep cons25 >> /dev/null && clear && vidcontrol -C

For other shells it's similar.
-- 
Paul



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