Console. More,Less

[Gr33nEye]

Just a quick one is there a way to manually scroll through the help/output of vmkfs, vmkiscsi ect commands? The reason why I ask is because I'm finding that the | less | more doesn't seem to work. The screen will just scroll to the bottom and then flip out if i try to scroll back up.

Thank you for any info.

[DSTAVERT]

Some of the things you can try are redirecting output to a file with > file.txt and then open the file. Shift + Page Up can sometimes work.

[Gr33nEye]

with shift down it's doesn't let me scroll.

[DSTAVERT]

Are you at the console or ssh? Console may be a problem. Shift Page UP works for many ssh terminal programs.

[Gr33nEye]

Console, on ssh i can just scroll the window up hence no need for more,less. also i should mention that on vMA is just flops period, if i console on it the command appears to execute but nothing shows up have to ctrl+c, q. same deal if i ssh the vma client but the screen just goes blank.

[AndreTheGiant]

Can you give an example of command that does not work with | less or | more?

vmkiscsi-tool works well and vmkfstools usually create few rows of output.

Maybe those commands use standard error instead of standard output.

In this case you can use:

2>&1 | more

Andre

[Gr33nEye]

im sorry i don't understand how i use

2>&1 | more

this is of an ssh session but the same things happens on console. the only things that this does not show is that immediately after i press enter on the command it displays the bottom menu/help options( doesn't fit on the screen). If i press the arrow keys, space, page up/down, it goes all ~~~~~.

login as: root
root@esx41's password:
Last login: Mon Feb 28 18:07:37 2011
[root@esx41 ~]# vmkiscsi-tool vmhba33 | less
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(END)

[AndreTheGiant]

Your command is incorrect. Without | less it prints the help

Try with:

vmkiscsi-tool -C -l vmhba33 | less

If arrow does not work maybe there is an incorrect keyboard, in this case use return to a new line and p to go back

[Gr33nEye]

Sorry for the misunderstanding but the point is to get the help menu and to be able to read it.

[Gr33nEye]

any other suggestions?