[ydl-gen] Scroll lock in terminal mode?

[jekillen]

On Jan 10, 2007, at 5:19 PM, David Seikel wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:58:42 -0800 jekillen <jekillen at prodigy.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello;
>> I am running YDL 3.0 on a Mac 3400c Powerbook. I use it
>> for backup DNS  server for my web sites. Since that is all
>> it really does, now, I have it running 24/7 in terminal mode.
>> I would like to do 'cat access_log | tail -100' to see the
>> latest and greatest hits. I have a placeholder web site
>> running on it and someone has taken to overloading it
>> with what look like pings ("-" "-"). It has been eating up
>> the memory (only has 144Mb max) and it is killing httpd
>> processes, and sendmail process. So I reboot, and since
>> I don't really need Apache running I shut it down. But I
>> need to do some sleuthing and maybe set some hosts.deny
>> rules.
>>
>> I don't know how to clear the display or do scroll lock so I
>> can see what is above the actual display. Does anyone know?
>
> cat access_log | tail -100 | less
>
> But simply -
>
> less access_log
>
> might be better.

Thanks,
Is there a way to scroll lock the display?
I am used to FreeBSD and a standard
keyboard so have just gotten into the
habit of using scroll lock. I would think
there would be a way on a laptop keyboard.
There is a numlock mechanism.
JK