[illumos-Developer] more & less

[Samuel Younge]

You know, it was puzzling to me, there is no obvious logic to it not being in the path when in single user mode but working fine in other init states. 

I just remember dropping to single user mode and being annoyed that I had to use 'more' because 'less' was absent. 

This was about 2 weeks ago and my build and environment have changed a lot since then. Maybe it is something to do with mods done by the SealOS transformations and not illumos-gate derived?  

I will test my current image for the problem (which is  based on a Dec. 3 illumos build). If the problem is still there I will track down the root cause and file a bug report on it. 


On Dec 5, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Garrett D'Amore <garrett at nexenta.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 12:22 -1000, Samuel Younge wrote:
> 
>> The only bizarre 'more' dependency in illumos that I am aware of is
>> that 'less' does not work by default after transitioning to single
>> user mode.
>> This is strange as both 'more' and 'less' exist in the /usr/bin PATH.
>> I am not sure what that is about, I have not taking the time to
>> investigate, but illumos does need a functional pager for single user
>> mode.
>> That is a minor issue though, I suspect.
> 
> That's a strange one.  less shouldn't have any external dependencies, so
> I don't know why it wouldn't work in single user mode.  Can you describe
> what actually happens when you try to use it.
> 
> I'd guess that resolving any problem here would be a requirement for
> making less a replacement for either /bin/more or xpg4/bin/more.
> 
>    - Garrett
>