Re: Clearing ttyv0 after boot
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Mel Flynnmel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Friday 17 July 2009 18:11:56 Joe Snikeris wrote: As the subject suggests, I'd like to clear ttyv0 immediately after booting so that it looks exactly like the other ttys. I suspect I might have to add a local rc script, but I'm fairly new to FreeBSD and am not sure if this is the correct way to go. Does anyone have any pointers? This recently came up on this list: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=83142+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2009/freebsd-questions/20090510.freebsd-questions Thanks for the pointer to that thread. 'clear /etc/issue' did it for me. To do this during at the end of rc stage take hints from /etc/rc.d/syscons, the rc(8) manpage and rcorder(8) about when to launch this script. Ideally you want to REQUIRE what the last script reported by rcorder PROVIDEs and possibly delay execution a bit (see /etc/rc.d/bgfsck for an example of that), since you can't really hook into the login prompt is now displayed event. Also, if you want the console to stay the same, you will need to configure /etc/syslog.conf and change the line that sends to /dev/console to send it to /var/log/console.log. newsyslog.conf(5) is already configured to rotate that log. -- Mel ___ 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 ___ 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
Clearing ttyv0 after boot
Hi all, As the subject suggests, I'd like to clear ttyv0 immediately after booting so that it looks exactly like the other ttys. I suspect I might have to add a local rc script, but I'm fairly new to FreeBSD and am not sure if this is the correct way to go. Does anyone have any pointers? Thanks in advance, Joe ___ 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
Re: Clearing ttyv0 after boot
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:11:56 -0500, Joe Snikeris j...@snikeris.com wrote: Hi all, As the subject suggests, I'd like to clear ttyv0 immediately after booting so that it looks exactly like the other ttys. I suspect I might have to add a local rc script, but I'm fairly new to FreeBSD and am not sure if this is the correct way to go. Does anyone have any pointers? You could add the command /usr/bin/tput clear as the last line (prior to exit 0) to /etc/rc - but it's not encouraged to modify this file because it can cause trouble on updating. But it will work. Note that you can still press the Scroll Lock key and see the messages that have been scrolled off the terminal. If you want, you can use an additional call to /usr/sbin/vidcontrol to clear the buffer. Refer to the vidcontrol manpage for how to do that. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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
Re: Clearing ttyv0 after boot
On Friday 17 July 2009 18:11:56 Joe Snikeris wrote: As the subject suggests, I'd like to clear ttyv0 immediately after booting so that it looks exactly like the other ttys. I suspect I might have to add a local rc script, but I'm fairly new to FreeBSD and am not sure if this is the correct way to go. Does anyone have any pointers? This recently came up on this list: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=83142+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2009/freebsd-questions/20090510.freebsd-questions To do this during at the end of rc stage take hints from /etc/rc.d/syscons, the rc(8) manpage and rcorder(8) about when to launch this script. Ideally you want to REQUIRE what the last script reported by rcorder PROVIDEs and possibly delay execution a bit (see /etc/rc.d/bgfsck for an example of that), since you can't really hook into the login prompt is now displayed event. Also, if you want the console to stay the same, you will need to configure /etc/syslog.conf and change the line that sends to /dev/console to send it to /var/log/console.log. newsyslog.conf(5) is already configured to rotate that log. -- Mel ___ 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
