Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:50:50 -0700 From: "Dale Scott" <dalescott@shaw.ca> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: setting console width when running FreeBSD in VirtualBox Message-ID: <001301ca990e$691a8ce0$3b4fa6a0$@ca>
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I have a FreeBSD production server and want to create a development-test server on my Vista laptop using a dump of the production server running in VIrtualBox. I use Putty to access my production server and can resize the console by dragging a corner of the Putty window. However, the VirtualBox console doesn't to be resizeable (i.e. has a fixed 80-column display width). The problem is when commands can't return useful information because their console output is truncated at 80 columns (e.g, "ps -faux | grep httpd" doesn't return anything and incorrectly implies apache isn't running when the reason is that the output from ps is truncated before getting to grep). Does anyone have a solution to this? I was hoping to avoid modifying the configuration of the FreeBSD VIrtualBox vm (creating differences between the production server and the dev-test server), but any solution would be better than none. Dale
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