On Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:10:05 -0700
stan <upaitag(a)zoho.com> wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jun 2023 10:17:45 -0700
stan via users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2023 17:08:38 +0100
> Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > See also 'man journalctl' and search for PAGER.
>
> This is also relevant. Unfortunately, it seems that journalctl
> ignores the input of SYSTEMD_LESS. It is hard to tell, because
> there is no example of the kind of input it wants or whether it
> only accepts options without arguments, as the default options all
> are. I would probably have to look at the journalctl code to
> determine if they are hard coded into the program. There is no
> configuration file to set them in any case.
So, the code for journalctl shows it reading the options from the
variables, and invoking less with those options, but it doesn't seem
to affect the behavior of running journalctl, or at least the colors
don't change. Maybe I'll look more closely at some point, but no joy
for now.
Operator error. Exporting the wrong name because of a cut and paste.
Once I fixed that, definitely works to change colors in journalctl
output, will have to tune it to get what I want.
I put this in my .bashrc so everything is set on login.
SYSTEMD_PAGER=less
export SYSTEMD_PAGER
SYSTEMD_LESS="[list of less options]"
export SYSTEMD_LESS