Re: Clearing ttyv0 after boot

[Joe Snikeris]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Mel
Flynn 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:
> 

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
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Re: Clearing ttyv0 after boot

[Mel Flynn]

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:


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
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Re: Clearing ttyv0 after boot

[Polytropon]

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:11:56 -0500, Joe Snikeris  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, ...
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