For the benefit of the readers, I found the original thread that I had replied to. And, I suppose my text appeared twice because that's how microsoft likes it. ;) I did try to set this email to plain text, hopefully it will only appear once now.
Of all the days, it was on Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 09:00:07AM -0600 that wes schreiner quoth: > "Sander Smeenk (CistroN Medewerker)" wrote: > > > > Quoting wes schreiner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > Not that I can see, though I'd love to know of a clean way to clear the > > > scroll-back buffer. I agree it's a bit hackish. Can anyone come up > > > with something better? > > > > Ehm.. I did this: > > > > knopje# echo -e "\033[2J\033[1;1H" > issue.new > > knopje# cat /etc/issue >> issue.new > > knopje# mv issue.new /etc/issue > > > > And now when i log out from consoles the screen clears and the scrollback > > buffer is empty.. The \0332J is ANSI for Clear Screen and \033[1;1H is ANSI > > for place cursor on x1 y1... > > > > Works for me... > > Tried it, but this only clears the immediately visible screen for me, > not the scroll-back buffer. I'm using mgetty, are you using mingetty or > some other *getty? Maybe that's the difference. If so, then Ethan's vt > switching method is better because it doesn't depend on the getty. > > These ANSI codes do only clear the screen when the user logs out, > which was the original question. At some point somebody interpreted it > to be about clearing the scrollback buffer, and things have been going > off on that tangent ever since. FWIW, I posted these ANSI codes about > two days ago and also noted that they don't work at all if you don't > have an ANSI terminal. I know this post is from 2001, but I figured out a way to do it in case someone reads it. do the lines that were suggested on knopje, but then vi /etc/issue or use your favorite editor and insert a ton of newlines before it. the filesize isn't very big and it clears the buffer. You may have to experiment with just how many newlines you need.
