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Feature #7997

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Clear screen before loading rc.initial shell menu

Added by Clinton Cory over 6 years ago. Updated over 4 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Priority:
Low
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Category:
Console Menu
Target version:
-
Start date:
10/24/2017
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Description

I've encountered many instances where screen (or even putty) will output boot information on a single line that's difficult to decipher. I've attached an example screenshot of this. I'm not sure if this is a client console issue or something with FreeBSD/pfSense.

Since boot info is already logged and available through dmesg and system.log, it'd be nice to run 'clear' when /etc/rc.initial is ran on boot or when it's run while a console connection is active.

When I run into this issue (at least 10 times in the past two days), I enter '8' to drop to shell, run clear, then exit to refresh the shell menu. The only other way around it is restarting the console session (screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 - Linux Mint).

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2758-boot.png (282 KB) 2758-boot.png 2.4.1-RELEASE Clinton Cory, 10/24/2017 12:10 PM
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 #1

Updated by Clinton Cory over 6 years ago

Forgot to include the screen-shot. Imaged attached here
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Updated by Jim Pingle over 6 years ago

This is usually a client side issue. You can reset the terminal in screen with Ctrl-A,Z (Ctrl-A, then shift-Z), a 'reset' may be better than 'clear' in this case if we opt to do anything.

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Updated by Jim Pingle over 4 years ago

  • Category set to Console Menu
  • Status changed from New to Rejected

Old report and no recent recurrences. It's most likely a client terminal issue, or something specific to that hardware. For everyone else, the scrollback is useful and clearing would be a regression in functionality.

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