Bug 984425

Summary:	journalctl does not honor pager options ($LESS)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Kamil Páral <kparal>
Component:	systemd	Assignee:	systemd-maint
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	19	CC:	johannbg, lnykryn, msekleta, notting, plautrba, systemd-maint, vpavlin, zbyszek
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Description Kamil Páral 2013-07-15 08:20:51 UTC

Description of problem:
journalctl does not honor 'less' environment options. I have some options configured:

$ echo $LESS
--ignore-case --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS --quit-if-one-screen --no-init

But if I run "journalctl", I don't have case insensitive search enabled. The same problem is with "SYSTEMD_PAGER=less journalctl". However, if I run "journalctl | less", everything works correctly.

Since journalctl uses less by default, shouldn't it invoke it the same way the user is used to (honoring $LESS env variable)? It would be convenient and appreciated.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
systemd-204-9.fc19.x86_64
less-458-3.fc19.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. configure $LESS env var
2. run journalctl and see that the less configuration does not apply

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2013-07-26 01:02:02 UTC

We can#t really do that, because we require a number of LESS values set. You can still override this by assing the arguments to $PAGER as command line arguments.

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=868383