From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 16 14:09:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FC4E16A4CE for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:09:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (ns0.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA98543D49 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:09:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1])i7GE9XvB084432 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:09:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i7GE9XAQ084422; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:09:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:09:30 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Mike Message-ID: <20040816140930.GA84216@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Mike , freebsd-questions References: <4120BDA1.7030700@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4120BDA1.7030700@pacbell.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Greylist: Message not sent from an IPv4 address, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.3 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [0.0.0.0]); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:09:34 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040705, clamav-milter version 0.74a on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: How to increase scrollback for FreeBSD-4.10? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:09:43 -0000 --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 06:58:57AM -0700, Mike wrote: > When I'm on the 4.10 box the scrollback is about 200 lines. If possible= =20 > I'd like to set the scroll back to 600 lines or so (at least). >=20 > Question: How do I increase the scrollback on 4.10? That depends on the console program you're using. For an xterm(1), the following in ~/.Xdefaults will give you 8k scrollback lines: xterm*saveLines: 8192 (Remember to run '/usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb -merge ${HOME}/.Xdefaults' out of .xsession or .xinit so that gets set every time you log in) For the system console, you'll need to play with the syscons(4) history size. Modify your kernel configuration to set options SC_HISTORY_SIZE=3DN where N is the number of lines of scroll back you want (default 100). Then build and install a new kernel in the usual way: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.= html There doesn't seem to be any way of achieving the same effect via sysctl(8), which is unfortunate. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBIMAaiD657aJF7eIRApXVAJ4y8TaTgIAU2AXw3ZTv3fnEDYYKCQCfSb+8 9JsNRwgFvDYTeOahlez6/Z0= =Bden -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH--