Hello All,

PC: CuBox-i
OS: OpenSuSE 13.1
uname: Linux CuBox 3.14.14-cubox-i #1 SMP Sat Sep 13 03:48:24 UTC 2014 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux
Shell: Bash

So I was trying to see if there was a way to resize the terminal dynamically upon logging into a remote PC. How I login now is to use minicom on my PC (*or could be Putty from Windows depending on where I am) and Dial into the PC remotely. On the remote PC I have mgetty running to listen for and initialize the connection. I have mgetty configured to use TERM=vt102 as the Terminal type (*this is because this terminal produced the best result for using the screen command while dialed into this PC)...

Once I'm logged in I can see $COLUMNS is set to 80 and $LINES is set to 24.

I know I can change this by default in /etc/termcap, but who knows what size "My" terminal will be on my laptop before dialing into the PC. So I wanted to do it dynamically. I was able to successfully run the resize command which sets COLUMNS and LINES to the current window size and exports the variables after logging-in... So I was wondering if there is a way to run this automagically after logging in?

I read there is a file called "/etc/csh.login" that is supposed to get executed upon logging in, but looking over the file it doesn't even look like it would execute given the syntax of the code...
*For example, it has this in csh.login, which is not in any shell syntax I'm used to...

Code:

#
# Initialize terminal
#
if ( -o /dev/$tty && -c /dev/$tty && ${?prompt} ) then
    # Console
    if ( ! ${?TERM} )           setenv TERM linux
    if ( "$TERM" == "unknown" ) setenv TERM linux
    if ( ! ${?SSH_TTY} && "$TERM" != "dumb" ) then
        path stty sane cr0 pass8 dec
        path tset -I -Q
    endif
    # on iSeries virtual console, detect screen size and terminal
    if ( -d /proc/iSeries && ( $tty == "tty1" || "$tty" == "console")) then
        setenv LINES   24
        setenv COLUMNS 80
        eval `path initviocons -q -e -c`
    endif
    settc km yes
endif
unsetenv TERMCAP

Given just the 1st If statement above, it fails with an error... Which got me wondering if csh.login was only for CSH/C Shell.?
Or maybe I can do something from ~/.bashrc file..?

Also, when I dial into the PC now, after I login and get the Command prompt the terminal size is working at the same physical size of the terminal window, but as soon as I use something like vi, view, man, etc... The terminal switches to 24 rows and 80 cols, which remains that way even after exiting those commands. But if the variables COLUMNS and LINES are set to what I want the size does NOT change.

But anyway, does anyone know what the best way to try and do this would be? Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in Advance,
Matt