Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

> > 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.

I'd prefer to not see a particular terminal types' escape sequence
hard-coded in the gettytab (even though just about everything that's
still in use would probably understand ANSI escape sequences).  Perhaps
something which pinches the default term entry from /etc/ttys and uses
the clear-screen sequence from the termcap entry for that terminal type?

Simon.
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