tty "clear"ed after completion of init

cubancigar11 · 2008-12-12 14:39:03

Hi!

[praise]
I have just installed Archlinux on a Windows host using Virtualbox, after wasting around 20 GB out of my 25 GB monthly quota trying Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Puppy, Gentoo, Sabayon, Slackware 12.2.

I should have found Archlinux earlier... this is exactly what I wanted (actually, debian was also good contender, but whenever I would open amarok, the whole system would crash - like windows - no mouse - no keyboard - not even Ctrl+Alt+Del).
[/praise]

I have a problem: I cannot find a way to stop clearing the tty screen after init. I would like to see what messages have been given!

string · 2008-12-12 14:47:26

Welcome to the Arch Linux brotherhood (sisterhood?). Now that you are inside the circle of trust I am at liberty to share with you the most closely guarded secret of Linuxdom, a secret which you must now guard with your own life: /etc/issue.

-- Either remove the first line from that file or play around with /etc/issue:

c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -i 38400 vc/1 linux

instead of:

c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/1 linux

Last edited by string (2008-12-12 14:51:16)

rson451 · 2008-12-12 14:50:23

If you want to see this temporarily, then have it back to normal at a later date, you can put "read KEY" at the end of /etc/rc.local to pause the output until a key is pressed.

eldragon · 2008-12-12 15:19:31

string wrote:

Welcome to the Arch Linux brotherhood (sisterhood?). Now that you are inside the circle of trust I am at liberty to share with you the most closely guarded secret of Linuxdom, a secret which you must now guard with your own life: /etc/issue.
-- Either remove the first line from that file or play around with /etc/issue:
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -i 38400 vc/1 linux
instead of:
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/1 linux

and i was so worried it would be http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Main_Page

or even http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pos … ot_Process

cubancigar11 · 2008-12-12 15:52:16

*cough*brotherhood*cough*

Must be that my google skills have hibernated this winter...

Thanks a lot

string · 2008-12-12 17:22:35

eldragon wrote:

and i was so worried it would be http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Main_Page
or even http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pos … ot_Process

What the heck, there's an Arch Linux WIKI !? When did that happen? [I kid.]

From http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pos … ot_Process :

comment out the agetty instance that runs on vc/1 in /etc/inittab.

Hm.. I think my idea of passing the `-i` flag to agetty instead is somewhat better as it gets rid of the undesired behaviour without side-effects. (Side note: I pass `-i` to all agetty instances because I can simply not think of a useful /etc/issue -- and, no, "omg but itz pretty!" doesn't quite cut it for me)

cubancigar11: I should have thought about it for a moment, everybody knows there are no girls on the internet / no girls using linux / etc.

Last edited by string (2008-12-12 17:25:20)

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tty "clear"ed after completion of init

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