[ale] screen blanking

[ivey at gweezlebur.com (Michael D. Ivey, RHCE)]

On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 08:57:38AM -0400, Mir Shafiqul Islam wrote:
> I tink setterm command blanks the screen after 15 minutes of inactivity at
> console. It is called from /etc/rc.d/rc.M
> 
>>
>> I noticed that with my system running RedHat, when logging off the
>> screen blanks.  On the other hand, my Slackware systems do not.  Is
>> there a way to have the screen blank after logging off so that the login 
>> screen has only the contents of the issue file followed by the login
>> prompt?  Thanks in advance of any help 
>> Regards - Bob Kruger 

Actually, I think Bob wannted to clear the console after he logs out.  

	ivey at bagheera
	$ cat .bash_logout 
	# ~/.bash_logout: run before exiting the shell

	clear

Red Hat does this by default.

/mdi

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