On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:55:18 +0000 Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 10:38:01 GMT Michael wrote: > > On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 10:30:19 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > > > I see that the kernel code to scroll the console has been stripped out > > > [1]. What do people use instead? > > > > > > This loss is a nuisance while installing a new system, as I am still > > > trying to do on my old laptop. > > > > > > 1. https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/09/15/1824233&from=rss > > > > A relief to see I'm not alone in experiencing this problem - I thought I had > > misconfigured something on my systems. :-) > > > > A way around it would be to use screen or tmux and use their internal > > buffer. However, if you're already logged in a console and suddenly want to > > Shift+PageUp, then it would be too late. This suggestion won't help if you > > want to look at the rc scripts output as the system boots, but you can > > capture these separately in syslog. > > It's a pain in the neck while trying to emerge a base system and being thrown > scores of lines of reasons why it can't be done, with the prime cause long > gone. I tried using "| tee 2>&1 > /tmp/file" and then viewing the file on > another vTTY, but there ought to be a neater way. > How about this (works with bash, not sure about other shells): emerge |& less This should work with all shells: emerge 2>&1 | less Cheers Andreas
