Stuart Henderson wrote:
> I think I looked at this before then forgot about it,
> 
> I'm in two minds whether to update it, or just remove the faq entry,
> because it doesn't really work all that well (doesn't clear the scrollback)
> and it forces serial ports to have control sequences that might confuse
> some terminals...
> 
> Any thoughts?

I'm thinking "remove".
There are probably platform-based quirks that all the proposed changes
don't deal with (i.e., sun), the scroll-back is an easily forgotten issue,
remote terminals, etc.

Let's just remove it.


Nick.


> 
> 
> In gmane.os.openbsd.misc, Mark Zimmerman <markz...@frii.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 08:48:12PM +0200, Olivier Regnier wrote:
>>> I have already modified the file "gettytab" with these lines:
>>> 
>>> P:Pc:Pc   console:\
>>> :np:sp#9600:\
>>> :cl=\E[H\E[2J:
>>> 
>>> This does not work ? An idea ?
>>> 
>>
>> The FAQ entry for this has been wrong for a few releases now. Try
>> this:
>>
>> 2|std.9600|9600-baud:\
>>         :sp#9600:\
>>         :cl=\E[H\E[2J:
>>
>> Assuming /etc/ttys has this for the console:
>>
>> console "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   vt220   off secure

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