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: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html > > 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 -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK
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