F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Tue Jul 16 18:19:31 UTC 2013


On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 20:09:19 +0200
Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:

> On Tue, 16.07.13 12:49, Andrew McNabb (amcnabb at mcnabbs.org) wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 01:56:44AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > > 
> > > We didn't override LESS initially, but we got bugs about that,
> > > and after a while of forth and back we followed again what git
> > > does here and override it. You find the discussions in bugzilla.
> > 
> > How do you turn this off?  Overriding user configuration can be
> > extremely annoying to users, but if there's an easy well-documented
> > way to turn off overriding, it's easier to deal with.
> 
> Set $SYSTEMD_PAGE to the pager of your choice along with any command
> line arguments you like.

This is a bit anoying for a lot of uses as permissions only allow root
(or the 'adm' group), so many people would use sudo with their journal
commands. 

BTW, should we change 'adm' to 'wheel' to match our other admin group? 

kevin


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