Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:21:59 -0500 From: doug@polands.org To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, Mike <addymin@pacbell.net>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to increase scrollback for FreeBSD-4.10? Message-ID: <20040816142132.GD85541@omniresources.com> 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:
>
> > When I'm on the 4.10 box the scrollback is about 200 lines. If possible
> > I'd like to set the scroll back to 600 lines or so (at least).
> >
> > 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=N
>
> 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:
>
xterm like programs allow the -sl switch lines. I've had problems with
numbers approaching 32767 but have never nailed down exactly how many
lines I can save. I safely use -sl 30000 for xterm, rxvt, aterm, and
gnome-terminal.
This would be an excellent topic to include in the fortune file:
freebsd-tips
--
Regards,
Doug
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