Re: [gentoo-user] How to remove the "clear screen" just before login

[Philip Webb]

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

I'm still using earlier versions of Openrc & Util-linux
& don't want to encounter this when they hit stable.

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