On Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:10:05 -0700 stan upaitag@zoho.com wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jun 2023 10:17:45 -0700 stan via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jun 2023 17:08:38 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@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