On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 06:53:53PM -0500, Girish Venkatasubramanian wrote: > Hello, > I am desperately trying to find out how to increase the size of the > scrollback buffer in the non-graphical mode console (no X). > > I am running a stock debian etch distribution without any X manager, > starting in runlevel 2. The machine boots up and I sign into the > console. Then, say I do an "ls -R /". This command will produce many > screens of output. Using the Shift+PgUp, I can scrollback by a few > screens-worth of lines - but the number of lines I can scrollback is > limited. I would like to increase this. > > I need this to watch the output of some long running make (and > redirecting the output to a file does not work satisfactorily). I have > thought about using screen, but if there is a way to do it natively, > that would work the best.
Two easy options: make 2>&1 | tee log (loses the return value. On bash you can still check $PIPESTATUS) or: run this in a screen session. A similar option to first one: script log and in to: make Though it means that your log will contain control characters. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
