Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to remove the "clear screen" just before login
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:15:02
Message-Id: 20120203221112.5b8940ed@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] How to remove the "clear screen" just before login by Helmut Jarausch
1 On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:15:31 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
2
3 > I'm using openrc (0.9.8.4) and I don't use any (graphical) login
4 > manager. After some upgrade of openrc (not too long ago), something
5 > clears the screen just before I'm offered to log in.
6 > But I'd like to see the last messages of openrc.
7 > What gets executed just before I can login? Or, where can I stop
8 > blanking the terminal just before login.
9
10 Edit /etc/inittab and change
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12 c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
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15 to
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17 c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty --noclear 38400 tty1 linux
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19 It is mentioned in an elog message.
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23 Neil Bothwick
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25 Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.

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