Increasing console buffer size

wilburpan · l33t Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 977

Is there a way to increase the size of the console buffer? I am trying to troubleshoot something but there are too many lines in the output. It does not all get captured by the buffer, so that when I use Shift-PgUp to go back, I am missing the first part of the output.

jimlynch11 · Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 4:06 am Post subject:

is this a terminal within an x session, or from the straight Command Line?

wilburpan · l33t Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 977

Actually, I'd be interested in how to do this in either situation.

Steffen · Apprentice Joined: 14 Jul 2002 Posts: 159

In Konsole you can achieve this by clicking on "Settings > History". Another way is to redirect the output into a file, for example:

PowerFactor · Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 1:35 pm Post subject:

For xterm rxvt and most other terminals buffer size is a command line option. Ccheck out the amn page for the knosole you're using. For regular consoles I typically pipe the output to less. Though for somenting with as much output as an emerge redirecting to a file is probably better.

jimlynch11 · Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 2:48 pm Post subject:

for aterm(and i think eterm) change the startup command (from whichever start menu or icon you use) to include:

wilburpan · l33t Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 977

Is there a way to increase the size for the scrollback buffer when the computer first boots up? I know that dmesg will print some of the output, but it does not capture the output from the scripts that are run at boot.

And is there a way to dump that buffer to a file?

MathFreak · Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 4:08 pm Post subject:

You could also use screen (awesome program regardless) and enable logging to capture everything. The tee program will also allow you to send the standard input to a file as well as back to standard input. This should do the trick (as long as the debug info goes to standard output and not the stderr)