F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Tue Jul 16 20:16:30 UTC 2013



Am 16.07.2013 22:10, schrieb John.Florian at dart.biz:
>> From: h.reindl at thelounge.net
>>
>> 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
> 
> Of course I could ... just as easily as you can set the systemd/git pager env variables, or aliases to pipe thru cat

and tomorrow a, b and c comes also with autopaging/truncate and
the next day d only with trunacte but no autopaging and you
have to read manpages for any random command to look how
behave anything you type in a terminal the same way

shiny new world.......................

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