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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