/etc/issue choking uucp logins

Norman Kohn nvk at ddsw1.MCS.COM
Fri Jan 5 12:24:05 AEST 1990


In article <1989Dec26.062006.13829 at rancho.uucp> rock at rancho.uucp (Rock Kent) writes:
>>>>>> On 25 Dec 89 05:13:56 GMT, asv at gaboon.UUCP (Stan Voket) said:
>Stan>      I have a full screen /etc/issue that I'd like to display on
>Stan>      unused terminals to clear a previous user's work for
>Stan>      security and neatness. ...

If your users are well-behaved you can have logouts trap to
tput clear
which will clear the screens at logout. 
i.e., have /etc/profile include
trap "tput clear" 0

On my unix386 (uport), however, this fails if the user as invoked
newgrp.

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