At 06:10 PM 2/13/00 -0500, t.bedlam wrote:
Slink's default behavior leaves all the text from the previous user's
session on the screen, and writes /etc/issue to the screen at the
bottom, with all this old session text above it. Red Hat prints /etc/issue
(I assume that's the file) on a blank
On Sun, 13 Feb, 2000 à 10:13:23PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
Speaking of logons, what control character may I write in the
/etc/issue file so the screen is cleared and text writing begins in
the upper left of the vc screen? I tried Ctl-L but it didn't work;
I looked in the archives,
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 08:46:00AM -0800, Pann McCuaig was only escaped
alone to tell thee:
ftp.ourmanpann.com/pub/pann/linuxlogo_3.0-3_i386.deb
Just a reminder (no, there's nothing funny about this package). You
should think twice about installing packages that you don't get from an
Speaking of logons, what control character may I write in the
/etc/issue file so the screen is cleared and text writing begins in
the upper left of the vc screen? I tried Ctl-L but it didn't work;
I looked in the archives, no good, man pages getty and issue also
ng.
clear file
Ciao,
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 10:13:23PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski was only
escaped alone to tell thee:
Speaking of logons, what control character may I write in the
/etc/issue file so the screen is cleared and text writing begins in
the upper left of the vc screen? I tried Ctl-L but it
clear file
Um, no. I know how to create empty files. :)
the above command doesn't create an empty file, it creates a file which
contains the control codes which clear the screen. eg.
heyzeus(larry)$ clear /tmp/blah
heyzeus(larry)$ od -tc /tmp/blah
000 033 [ H 033 [ 2 J
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 06:10:26PM -0500, t.bedlam wrote:
: On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 10:13:23PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski was only
:escaped alone to tell thee:
:
: Speaking of logons, what control character may I write in the
: /etc/issue file so the screen is cleared and text writing
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 02:17:43PM -0900, Adam Shand was only escaped
alone to tell thee:
the above command doesn't create an empty file, it creates a file which
contains the control codes which clear the screen. eg.
smack! Duh!
I'm so happy I can't blush over the net. :)
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