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
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