[mythtv-users] OT: Increasing Console Buffer Size in Fedora

[R. G. Newbury]

David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Dec 6, 2007, at 11:57 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> 
>> f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
>>>> Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:59:15 -0500
>>>> From: "R. G. Newbury" <newbury at mandamus.org>
>>>> I want to increase the size of whatever it is that keeps console  
>>>> screen
>>>> output so I can scroll back "further in time" in the output.
>>> Can't you just use "script", run whatever it is, type ^D, and then
>>> look at the resulting output file?  Or inside an Emacs shell buffer?
>>> Or is the problem that this is happening on boot and output is being
>>> written to the physical console but not put into dmesg or something?
>>>
>> Wow yet *another* way to skin this cat. I will have to play with
>> 'script'..Never even heard of it before.
>>
>> The problem is/was that mfdb sends voluminous output to stdout when it
>> cannot write to a temp file...So much so that the desired output is
>> pushed out of the buffer. This output does NOT show up in mfdb's  
>> logfile
>> (unless I used the wrong switches..that's possible and I will check.)
> 
> Could you redirect the output to a file?  You might need to redirect  
> both stdout and stderr.  If you're using bash as your shell, add this  
> to the end of the mythfilldatabase command line:
>   >output.txt 2>&1
> 
> The first part redirects stdout to a file.  The second one tells the  
> shell to combine stdout and stderr together.
> 
Thanks!. I think that that would be exactly the thing I should have used 
to debug my problem. Luckily I was able to find the problem and fix it.

Another gem for the wiki....debugging is more than 'printf' statements...

Geoff