F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog
Simo Sorce
simo at redhat.com
Tue Jul 16 20:02:27 UTC 2013
On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 21:50 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> Am 16.07.2013 21:45, schrieb John.Florian at dart.biz:
> >> From: h.reindl at thelounge.net
> >>
> >> i am *strictly* against all this truncate and autopaging and for
> >> me "GIT does the same" is no argument - a mistake is not better
> >> because others do the same.............
> >>
> >> if i want paging i do " | less" or " | more"
> >> *this* is the unix way of work
> >>
> >> but who am i...............
> >>
> > While I'm no more important than the next guy, I'll defend the auto-pager feature of both git and journalctl. I
> > love it, in fact. I'm no stranger to very long pipelines and sub-shells but I see nothing but benefit in not
> > having to add "| less" routinely to things that are UI in nature. These auto-pagers get out of the way immediately
> > if you need a pipeline, so what's the harm? In fact, you can still "journalctl | less" or the like if you really
> > want to.
>
> you could also do
> alias journalctl="journalctl | less"
> to achive the same
>
> hence my konsole has scrollbars, i do not like autopaging and whatever
> is not pure unix because there are mechs to achieve whatever you need
> and with GIt and systemctl/journalctl whe have a inconsistent behavior
>
> in any case *truncate* outputs is a absolutely no-go
>
> the ordinary user does not look at all this things and the
> advanced which have a reson to look get stripped informations
alias journalctl='journalctl --no-pager'
an live happy
Simo.
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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York
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