Treading carefully into a "holy war"...
On Thu Mar 09 2000 at 19:52, Alex Kanavin wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>
> > > This prevents the screen from clearing on the first tty when mingetty
> > > takes over.
> > You're treading on holy war territory on this. Unless something
> > drastic happens, this will *not* be changed.
> > All the boot messages should be in /var/log/boot.log and /var/log/messages.
>
> Press Shift-PgUp and you'll see everything but the last screen. So what's
> the point of clearing it then? Besides, NOT all the boot messages are in
> messages, boot.log or dmesg. Some appear only on screen.
The other point I was trying to make was that you have to go *looking*
for any problems, rather than have nice warning/error messages staring
at you in the face right at the start.
Not clearing tty1 on bootup (and after subsequent logouts) surely
isn't such a big deal - especially since the output of the rc scripts
looks quite good. But I guess there are enough "purists" out there
who would jump up and down and complain enough to not allow this to
happen. End of story.
Cheers
Tony
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