From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 19 14:19:16 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66D681065670 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:19:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dalescott@shaw.ca) Received: from idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca (idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38ACB8FC25 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:19:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pd2ml1so-ssvc.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.141.139]) by pd4mo1so-svcs.prod.shaw.ca with ESMTP; 19 Jan 2010 06:50:50 -0700 X-Cloudmark-SP-Filtered: true X-Cloudmark-SP-Result: v=1.0 c=1 a=vSnqyI8tvgAA:10 a=tDpkF8CQAtL7H52t/fGp9w==:17 a=FpT0RExNwLNjgEPlGO0A:9 a=ktL-Jru9ouViyXyP2fELVWnBKcUA:4 a=yMhMjlubAAAA:8 a=SSmOFEACAAAA:8 a=c3prgxLFqYaBLKaZlwMA:9 a=Kgt1Ze1A06pfo1eS0VIo8rOBIMgA:4 Received: from unknown (HELO DaleHPLaptop) ([68.144.196.5]) by pd2ml1so-dmz.prod.shaw.ca with ESMTP; 19 Jan 2010 06:50:50 -0700 From: "Dale Scott" To: Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:50:50 -0700 Message-ID: <001301ca990e$691a8ce0$3b4fa6a0$@ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: AcqZDmi42X79dXZCS9iVBzSiWG7jdA== Content-Language: en-ca Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: setting console width when running FreeBSD in VirtualBox X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:19:16 -0000 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