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authorash <ash@sorrel.sh>2022-01-22 14:49:54 +0000
committerYu Watanabe <watanabe.yu+github@gmail.com>2022-01-23 13:29:28 +0900
commitde4fe289cfab789d249752aa7df851c792658f21 (patch)
treeb0527b06ce70d5e243ee44b72be5a666d88f7277
parent2091c779314133d8a4b68283b255d7388a5ec5ff (diff)
downloadsystemd-de4fe289cfab789d249752aa7df851c792658f21.tar.gz
man: note more clearly that $SYSTEMD_PAGER requires $SYSTEMD_PAGERSECURE
-rw-r--r--man/common-variables.xml5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/common-variables.xml b/man/common-variables.xml
index 2f478cb453..0e220b3f9e 100644
--- a/man/common-variables.xml
+++ b/man/common-variables.xml
@@ -90,7 +90,10 @@
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>less</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> and
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>more</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, until one is found. If
no pager implementation is discovered no pager is invoked. Setting this environment variable to an empty string
- or the value <literal>cat</literal> is equivalent to passing <option>--no-pager</option>.</para></listitem>
+ or the value <literal>cat</literal> is equivalent to passing <option>--no-pager</option>.</para>
+
+ <para>Note: if <varname>$SYSTEMD_PAGERSECURE</varname> is not set, <varname>$SYSTEMD_PAGER</varname>
+ (as well as <varname>$PAGER</varname>) will be silently ignored.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id='less'>