misc/55794: Convenience improvement suggestion: clear screen after ^D (logout) at vty

[Peter Pentchev]

The following reply was made to PR misc/55794; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Peter Pentchev <roam at ringlet.net>
To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at regency.nsu.ru>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/55794: Convenience improvement suggestion: clear screen after ^D (logout) at vty
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:03:21 +0300

 On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 03:42:26PM +0700, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         55794
 > >Category:       misc
 > >Synopsis:       Convenience improvement suggestion: clear screen after ^D (logout) at vty
 > >Originator:     Alexey Dokuchaev
 > >Release:        FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386
 > >Description:
 > By default, getty(8) does not clear console screen upon logout, which is
 > somewhat annoying, though easy to fix.  Since I've been fixing this
 > thing in every installation during several past years (and I know many
 > others that do that as well), I think it's probably time to make it into
 > CVS.  Thoughts?
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > Just login at console, ls /, hit ^D.  See all you ls(1) output there.
 > >Fix:
 > The fix is trivial:
 [snip termcap fix]
 
 I prefer to do this in a logout script when necessary - for some users
 only - because I personally don't like the clear-screen idea too much...
 
 G'luck,
 Peter
 
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