Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:13:49 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Mike <addymin@pacbell.net>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to increase scrollback for FreeBSD-4.10? Message-ID: <20040816141349.GB84216@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040816140930.GA84216@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4120BDA1.7030700@pacbell.net> <20040816140930.GA84216@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 03:09:30PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 06:58:57AM -0700, Mike wrote:
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> > When I'm on the 4.10 box the scrollback is about 200 lines. If possible=
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> > 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?
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> That depends on the console program you're using. For an xterm(1),
> the following in ~/.Xdefaults will give you 8k scrollback lines:
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> xterm*saveLines: 8192
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> (Remember to run '/usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb -merge ${HOME}/.Xdefaults' out
> of .xsession or .xinit so that gets set every time you log in)
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> For the system console, you'll need to play with the syscons(4)
> history size. Modify your kernel configuration to set
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> options SC_HISTORY_SIZE=3DN
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> 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:
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> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfi=
g.html
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> There doesn't seem to be any way of achieving the same effect via
> sysctl(8), which is unfortunate.
Except of course, for the kbdcontrol(1) program which I am reminded
does all that sort of stuff. Changing SC_HISTORY_SIZE will let you
alter the default size of the history buffer, kbdcontrol(1) lets you
override that to whatever value you want.
Cheers,
Matthew
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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
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