Hi Donald, thanks for your suggestions! Let me start to discuss the "pager" first:
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 09:38:54AM -0700, Donald Russell wrote: > First, let me say I think this whole terminal server thing is > fantastic. I would like to offer some suggestions... Thanks! > 2c - > add an option in ts-shell to turn the pager off for the list command. > list-pager=no > list-pager=<path to pager program> > Reason: > "It's just wrong"(TM) :-) Though because ts-shell has such limited > access to the rest of the system I understand it may be more difficult > to allow the user to do their own piping .... > But in our (and probably lots) of situations, the list isn't really > that long, especially when using regex. ts-shell has limited access to the terminal server system itself and a default pager is necessary for long lists of systems. The pager program can be specified as an enviroment variable. (If the PAGER env var is empty or not set, ts-shell uses less). Setting an environment variable for a login shell is a bit tricky, so having a configuration option and, perhaps, a "pager" command makes sense. However, it is possible to set or modify environment variables using the pam_env PAM module: simply specify the variables in the "/etc/security/pam_env.conf" configuration file. To set another pager, add or change: ---- PAGER DEFAULT=more ---- If list in ts-shell is not very long, try the following: To cause less automatically exit if the entire content can be displayed on the first screen, i.e. it behaves like cat then, add: ---- LESS DEFAULT="-F" ---- Best regards, Hendrik -- Hendrik Brueckner brueck...@linux.vnet.ibm.com | IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Linux on System z Development | Schoenaicher Str. 220, 71032 Boeblingen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
