[Soekris] Clear screen on boot

Nick Hibma nick at anywi.com
Wed Mar 28 13:57:53 UTC 2007


>> I use OpenBSD cu(1), which is of course fully featured and excellently
>> documented. I guess at the time I was pointed at an _option_ and blindly
>> looked for a command option. Then I found that shell redirection served
>> my purpose (boot logging) equally well. But of course you're absolutely
>> right..
>
> script foo.log
> cu ...

But why does it clear the screen in the first place? I know that I can 
log, then filter out the ^L and then look at the screen. But usually 
when a machine panics you do not have logging enabled (Murphy's law).

Nick


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