Re: Showing /dev/tty12 (or similar) syslog output in screen window

[Michael Parson]

On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 09:10:29PM +0200, Folkert van Heusden wrote:
>>>>>> After I did a ':scrollback 0', or what?
>>>>> afaik there's no scrolling at all in screen (unless you start the
>>>>> copy+paste buffer)
>>>> That /is/ the scrollback in screen.  How is it not satisfactory?
>>> It is not switched on by default.
>> I'm sorry, but have you spent two months trying to come up with a
>> problem with the scrollback mechanism?
>> And this is what you came up with?
>
> I've... been a little behind with my e-mail.
>
>> And the best part of all: Your totally and utterly wrong!
>
> I'm glad.
>
>> Defscrollback is initially set to 100 and COPY_PASTE is #defined by
>> default.
>
> Can I change that parameter in .screenrc somehow?

The size of the scroll buffer?

Yeah, mine is set to 2000 lines:

defscrollback 2000

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Michael Parson
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