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Date:      Tue, 6 Oct 2020 15:30:37 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net>
To:        Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
Cc:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: difference between real serial console and virtual console
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.2010061528020.74533@puchar.net>
In-Reply-To: <fddc73b1-1c4b-ffaf-7e05-3c71311d7953@grosbein.net>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.2010061259550.56990@puchar.net> <fddc73b1-1c4b-ffaf-7e05-3c71311d7953@grosbein.net>

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>> any idea why?
>
> This should be related to user terminal size that's configured by user terminal emulator in case of network login.
> In case of VGA console, it's configured by console driver itself.

Not VGA console. serial console.
connected to same sized rxvt as ssh.

>
> In case of serial console, the system known nothing about user terminal size initially,
> so FreeBSD's default .login/.profile scripts contain call to resizewin utility.
> Read its manual page resizewin(1) and make sure you have "resizewin -z" in your shell's profile.

added to .bash_profile - i will check the results next time i will be 
there and use serial port



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