From gentoo-user  Fri Feb 03 22:09:44 2012
From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc () arcor ! de>
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:09:44 +0000
To: gentoo-user
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to remove the "clear screen" just before login
Message-Id: <jghlvf$lo5$1 () dough ! gmane ! org>
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On 02/03/2012 08:55 PM, Philip Webb wrote:
> 120203 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>>> I'm using openrc (0.9.8.4) and I don't use any (graphical) login manager.
>>> After some upgrade of openrc -- not too long ago --
>>> something clears the screen just before I'm offered to log in.
>>> But I'd like to see the last messages of openrc.
>>> What gets executed just before I can login?
>>> Or, where can I stop blanking the terminal just before login.
>>  From util-linux-2.20.1-r1.ebuild:
>>
>> pkg_postinst() {
>>    elog "The agetty util now clears the terminal by default.  You"
>>    elog "might want to add --noclear to your /etc/inittab lines."
>> }
>>
>> Maybe it's this?
>
> 120203 Dale wrote:
>
>> I like this myself but I do find myself in your situation sometimes.
>> Try here:  /etc/bash/bash_login .
>
> Both replies are interesting, but incomplete :
> (1) to which line in  inittab  do we add '--noclear' ?

To the line for the terminal you don't want to be cleared.  I only added 
it to tty1:

   c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux --noclear


> (2) what do we put in  bash_login ? -- 'man bash' doesn't help.

Nothing you would put there would help.  It's about preventing the 
clearing of the terminal.  There's nothing you can do after it has been 
cleared.