Bug 131463

Summary: /sbin/mingetty clears the screen before login by default
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Daniel Reed <djr>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Daniel Reed 2004-09-01 16:32:30 UTC 
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Description of problem:
There have been several situations where I have seen error messages
scroll by while booting and mingetty's clearing of the screen has
clobbered my scrollback.

mharris suggests the "--noclear" argument to /sbin/mingetty in
/etc/inittab, as in:

1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 --noclear
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2 --noclear
 ...
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2004-09-01 16:48:12 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1144 ***
Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:05:24 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.