On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 06:53:07PM +0100, Redd Vinylene wrote: > On 2/4/09, Rajarajan Rajamani <r.rajam...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The messages are from /etc/motd > > > > Edit is to display what you'd like.
That's not his problem. Something *else* prints a newline before the contents of /etc/motd... See login(1) and check out /etc/login.conf. Just guessing and not tested: if the console driver supports ANSI control sequences, you could add the sequence that clears the screen and homes the cursor (Esc[2J) [1] to the beginning of /etc/motd and see if it works. Something like this: Esc[2JThis is the first line of the motd. This is the second line. etc... (Use the real Esc-character for this, not the three chars 'E', 's' and 'c'; i.e. 1B(hex), 33(oct), 27(dec)) But again, it should only work if the console driver supports ANSI escape sequences. [1] http://ascii-table.com/ansi-escape-sequences-vt-100.php -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
