Clearing ttyv0 after boot

[Joe Snikeris]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Mel
Flynn<mel.flynn+fbsd.questions at mailing.thruhere.net> wrote:
> On Friday 17 July 2009 18:11:56 Joe Snikeris wrote:
>
>> As the subject suggests, I'd like to clear ttyv0 immediately after
>> booting so that it looks exactly like the other ttys.  I suspect I
>> might have to add a local rc script, but I'm fairly new to FreeBSD and
>> am not sure if this is the correct way to go.
>>
>> Does anyone have any pointers?
>
> This recently came up on this list:
> <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=83142+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2009/freebsd-questions/20090510.freebsd-questions>

Thanks for the pointer to that thread.

'clear > /etc/issue' did it for me.

>
> To do this during at the end of rc stage take hints from
> /etc/rc.d/syscons, the rc(8) manpage and rcorder(8) about when to launch
> this script. Ideally you want to REQUIRE what the last script reported
> by rcorder PROVIDEs and possibly delay execution a bit (see
> /etc/rc.d/bgfsck for an example of that), since you can't really hook
> into the "login prompt is now displayed" event.
>
> Also, if you want the console to stay the same, you will need to
> configure /etc/syslog.conf and change the line that sends to /dev/console
> to send it to /var/log/console.log. newsyslog.conf(5) is already
> configured to rotate that log.
> --
> Mel
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