On 2014-08-03 09:16 +0200, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 8:53 PM, The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> wrote: >> On 08/02/2014 03:15 PM, Brian wrote: >>> On Sat 02 Aug 2014 at 12:24:46 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >>>> Brian wrote: >>>>> >>>>> With sysvinit the default at booting is for the screen messages >>>>> to fly past at a bewildering speed and then for the screen to be >>>>> cleared by agetty. Nobody particularily complains about this >>>>> behaviour. Unless you have an excellent visual memory you are in >>>>> the dark as regards what happened. >>>> >>>> Just for the record I complain about that behavior. I don't like >>>> the fancy tty colors and always disable them. I don't like the >>>> screen clearing those away and so I always set the getty --noclear >>>> option. The problem is that while there may be complaints like mine >>>> I don't see them changing anything. >>> >>> Upstream for agetty responded to concerns about security from users, >>> some of whom apparently had the compliance police breathing down >>> their necks. My view on such idiocy is probably not for this list. >>> The --noclear option rules here too. >> >> Where do you set this, exactly? /etc/inittab ? (If so, what about for >> systemd? /etc/inittab is much about runlevels, which systemd doesn't use >> AFAIK.) > > In "/etc/inittab" for sysvinit and in "/etc/systemd/system/" for systemd.
That's a bit terse, the Archlinux Wiki[1] has more detailed information how to achieve that with systemd. Cheers, Sven 1. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disable_Clearing_of_Boot_Messages -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87bns2roy6....@turtle.gmx.de