hingwah wrote: > Recently I just change from using Redhat 6.0 to debian. I'm now > using slink 2.1 + a few updates from the frozen directory.. > > When I try to use the "ps -aux" command, usually the lines is > too long and the screen is not large enough to display the whole > line. In the times when I use Redhat 6.0 I can just solve it by > "COLUMNS=200 ps-aux" (orginally COLUMNS=80), if the lines is too > long it will wrapped to next lines. However,I find that this don't > work in debian. I even can't see any COLUMNS or LINES defined in > the enviroment variable....Any solution?
"COLUMNS=200 ps aux" will work for you after you upgrade your procps package. A quick look at the code shows that slink uses procps-1.2.9 which does not have support for COLUMNS or LINES; however, unstable uses procps-2.0.6 which does support COLUMNS or LINES. Paul Serice
