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Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to remove the "clear screen" just before login
From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc () arcor ! de>
Date: 2012-02-03 22:09:44
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.
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