Public bug reported: For people who use ipmiconsole or other serial port access to servers a great deal it would be helpful to set LINES and COLUMNS correctly on login. There are a number of ways to do this. I found a small (10k) C application at:
http://web.archive.org/web/20081224152013/http://www.davehylands.com /gumstix-wiki/resize/resize.c which works nicely. It appears to be a simplified version of the resize command in xterm (which has too many dependencies for comfortable server usage). It seems quite old (2006) so there may be a better, newer version of this. Perhaps it would be better named tty-resize. I added the following two lines to .profile which then invoke the resize command on login: # size the terminal for login over serial [[ $(tty) == /dev/ttyS* ]] & /usr/local/bin/resize I think remote serial usage is interesting for cloud and server farm use cases which are a big part of Ubuntu usage, so would like to improve experience in these cases across the board. This is a small part of that. ** Affects: base-files (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1810578 Title: Set correct terminal size to improve login over serial port experience To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1810578/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
