Clearing screen before login prompt.

[Ivan Fetch <ivanfetch technologist com>]

Hi,

   I'm not sure about clearing the screen before the very first login
prompt you get when you boot your machine, but if you want the screen to
clear after a user logs out, thereby placing the login prompt at the top of
the screen, put the following line in /etc/profile or in ~/.profile (in the
case of bash) (/etc/profile is for all users, ~/.profile is user-specific):
trap clear 0

This "traps" the exit signal from the shell, issuing a `clear' command once
the shell exits.

Hope this helps,
Ivan Fetch.