Hi Dennis,
Thanks for all the suggestions. We do spool our vm consoles. I will look
at ttssh. PuTTY has scrollback but I don't know if its size is
customizable. I will look at ed also. If I recall some of the commands
are like the old VM EDIT line-mode editor. (I used to dial in to VM over
1200 baud line with a print-on-paper terminal - many eons ago.)
Thanks again,
tom
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Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> wrote on 12/30/2004 08:24:47
AM:
> Tom,
>
> Two different things. You spool your console for historical purposes.
> eg. What happened during boot that it didn't mount xyz. All of the
> initialization messages are printed to the console. Also many system
> messages come out there, and if you can't get your linux guest to
> come up and stay up you can't look in syslog!
>
> You still use putty or whatever to connect and do stuff. Although I
> prefer ttssh (TerraTerm Secure SHell extension). And then all of the
> messages are on the screen. Does putty have scroll back capability?
> ttssh does and I have mine set to 10,000 lines. Hopefully that will
> give me time for ctl-C before a runaway fills up the entire buffer!
>
> And you should learn ed. It works on any character mode terminal, like
> 3270 running as CP/CMS console. And it is a lot easier than booting
> another linux guest, getting the correct vol mounted somewhere, etc.
> just so you can use vi or umm ... that other thing that startes with
> an "e". I have found that a lot of things that stop you from booting
> can be fixed in a minute or two with ed.
>
> Good Luck!
> Dennis
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