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Simple question. I see the following when I open a new terminal window (iTerm):
Last login: Fri Mar 2 16:52:40 on ttys009
I am working on some desktop automation (terminal shortcuts n such) and want to make that text go away when opening a new virtual terminal in an interactive session. I am using bash as my login shell.
Is this a bash setting? How can I silence this output?
From man login:
If the file ~/.hushlogin or /etc/hushlogins exists, then a "quiet" login is performed (this disables the checking of mail and the printing of the last login time and message of the day).
Note that if last login is still being shown after carrying out the above, you should investigate PAM as suggested in the man page.
man page you would notice that it prints the last login info if the file /var/log/lastlogs exists. This implies that if the file doesn't exists....? However, I'd be wary as removing that file may break something else. Might be worth a test though?
May 5, 2021 at 7:13
echo > /var/log/lastlog should help and indeed this suppresses the message. Even better may be unix.stackexchange.com/a/170564/78728.
May 5, 2021 at 12:20
man login into Google although that's a generic result, not a distro specific one. Must check my sources in future!
May 5, 2021 at 14:21
If you're working on automation, it should not matter -- that text is not displayed for non-interactive terminals.
Or a good old clear does the job
.bashrcor.bash_profile, so it's likely you could just comment out the command ...