Bug 978841

Summary:	RFE: add comment 'export SYSTEMD_PAGER="' line to /etc/skel/.bash_profile
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Petr Sklenar <psklenar>
Component:	bash	Assignee:	Ondrej Oprala <ooprala>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Iveta Wiedermann <isenfeld>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0	CC:	harald, isenfeld, lnykryn, ovasik, psklenar, systemd-maint-list
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Fixed In Version:	bash-4.2.45-2.el7	Doc Type:	Enhancement
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Last Closed:	2014-02-18 13:21:12 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	959971

Description Petr Sklenar 2013-06-27 08:12:50 UTC

Description of problem:
pager does not fit to everyone, please thing about some way to switch it off like SYSTEMD_PAGER="" into bash login.
It could be turn-on by default, but user could see how to switch it off

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Expected results:
add directive SYSTEMD_PAGER to visible file

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Comment 2 Harald Hoyer 2013-06-27 11:09:37 UTC

(In reply to Petr Sklenar from comment #0)
> Expected results:
> add directive SYSTEMD_PAGER to visible file

you mean in /etc/skel/.bashrc or /etc/skel/.bash_profile or /etc/bashrc??

$ rpm -qf /etc/skel/.bashrc
bash-4.2.45-1.fc19.x86_64
$ rpm -qf /etc/bashrc 
setup-2.8.71-1.fc19.noarch

Comment 3 Petr Sklenar 2013-06-27 13:07:07 UTC

(In reply to Harald Hoyer from comment #2)
> (In reply to Petr Sklenar from comment #0)
> > Expected results:
> > add directive SYSTEMD_PAGER to visible file
> 
> you mean in /etc/skel/.bashrc or /etc/skel/.bash_profile or /etc/bashrc??
> 
> $ rpm -qf /etc/skel/.bashrc
> bash-4.2.45-1.fc19.x86_64
> $ rpm -qf /etc/bashrc 
> setup-2.8.71-1.fc19.noarch

I was about /etc/bashrc or maybe better ~/.bash_profile (so /etc/skel/.bash_profile). But don't know what's the better/more visible place (the both :) )


fyi once we talked to systemd developers and its in their todo list:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=3679d1126bae52e02f6cd60fca196f616b9e660d

Comment 5 Lennart Poettering 2013-07-11 21:17:17 UTC

This really sounds like something to reassign to the bash package.

Bash folks, can we convince you to add the (commented!) lines

# Uncomment the following line if you don't like systemctl's auto-paging feature:
# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=''

to /etc/skel/.bash_profile?

That way, people who really hate the git-style auto-paging systemctl does can easily discover how to turn it off.

Comment 6 Roman Rakus 2013-07-23 16:09:38 UTC

Hmm, I don't know. Currently there isn't any suggestions. Do we really need to start it with SYSTEMD_PAGER?
Ah, but ok, it will not hurt anyone.

Comment 7 Roman Rakus 2013-07-23 16:17:01 UTC

(In reply to Lennart Poettering from comment #5)
> This really sounds like something to reassign to the bash package.
yep
> 
> Bash folks, can we convince you to add the (commented!) lines
yep
> 
> # Uncomment the following line if you don't like systemctl's auto-paging
> feature:
> # export SYSTEMD_PAGER=''
> 
> to /etc/skel/.bash_profile?
I think .bashrc is better - Usually I'm editing bashrc, which is executed when bash is not run as login shell.
> 
> That way, people who really hate the git-style auto-paging systemctl does
> can easily discover how to turn it off.
Hmm, really easily? I will not be trying to find anything about systemd configuration in bashrc.

Anyway, some configuration options is ok to have in bashrc. I think people will like such suggestions.

Comment 8 Roman Rakus 2013-08-09 11:50:03 UTC

Fixed in bash-4.2.45-2.el7

Users should see suggestion in ~/.bashrc