#64229 hoststatus does not use full terminal width

Package:
sendmail
Source:
sendmail
Submitter:
Wichert Akkerman
Date:
2005-07-18 03:24:58 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#64229#5
Date:
2000-05-16 19:51:54 UTC
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the output of "sendmail -bh" seems to be hardcoded for an 80 characters
wide terminal. This is a pity, since it means I don't get to see
valueable information even though my terminal is a lot wider.

Wichert.
#64229#10
Date:
2000-05-16 22:23:04 UTC
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try sendmail -bh -v, the 'results' column then will be limited to 79 chars
which should be enough for just about anything:
sendmail -bh -v
 -------------- Hostname --------------- How long ago ---------Results---------
 zardoc.endmail.org                        5+02:35:02 250 2.0.0 e4BJiWj06409 Message accepted for delivery
 northrelay03.pok.ibm.com                    06:35:32 250 LAA128246 Message accepted for delivery
 westrelay03.boulder.ibm.com               1+02:21:47 OK
 southrelay03.raleigh.ibm.com              1+01:17:51 OK
 lexvm2.raleigh.ibm.com                    1+01:33:56 250 Mail Delivered
#64229#15
Date:
2000-05-16 23:45:03 UTC
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reopen 64229
thanks

Previously Richard A Nelson wrote:

Better, but still not good enough. Hostname can be up to 255 characters long
so you still have no way to see everything. What I would like sendmail to do
is check the width of the tty use that to layout its output. For an example
of how to do that see main/enquiry.c in the dpkg source.

Wichert.
#64229#22
Date:
2000-05-17 13:09:02 UTC
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Previously Richard A Nelson wrote:

Only if you make it so :). For dpkg I use fixed relative sizes
for the column so I can easily calculate their width. It's not
really optimal but it is simple. The alternative would be to
walk over the complete output once first to grab the maximum
needed column widths, but that can be an expensive operation.

Wichert.
#64229#27
Date:
2000-05-17 01:45:44 UTC
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Heh, sorry 'bout that, thought I had it covered

hrm...  will that automagically handle (sorry, on wrong box now) two
variable length fields (hostname, result)?

I'll take a peek, but I'm off to a wedding Thu-Mon... so It'll probably
be mid-next week