The "right" solution to get a quiet login is to touch ~/.hushlogin in your home directory. It's documented in the login(1) man page. There's also a globa

The "right" solution to get a quiet login is to touch ~/.hushlogin in your home directory. It's documented in the login(1) man page. There's also a global /etc/hushlogins file you can create to take care of all users.