> After reading getty(8) and gettytab(5) I got it to work on my system by
> adding the following two case sensitive lines to /etc/gettytab
> 
> Pc:\
> 	:cl=\e[2J:ce:ck:np:im=\r\n%s/%m (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\n:sp#9600:
> 
> Which is ':cl=\e[2J' added to the default terminal type.

We should probably enable something like this by default in getty.