[rancid] Re: Netscreen: nlogin file 'set console page 0'

[Jethro R Binks]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, john heasley wrote:

> Some (broken) devices, like Foundry, have a global setting to 
> disable/enable the pager that is permanent and affects all users.

Perhaps once, but does not appear to be the case even on modestly recent 
versions of the Foundry OS that I am familiar with (BigIron 7.6, 8.0, 
Super-X 3.x, 4.x, FWSX).  skip-page-display is a Priv exec command that 
affects only the current session.  Maybe it is time to remove the naughty 
words surrounding this bit in flogin :)

"Serial console and Telnet CLI users can individually enable or disable 
page-display mode without affecting the page-display mode of other CLI 
users.

...

This command is equivalent to the no enable skip-page-display command at 
the global CONFIG level."

Global config command "enable skip-page-display" is per-system, rather 
than per-user.  I guess the per-session priv exec command came later.

I note similar comments for Extreme: "... an extreme (since the pager can 
not be disabled on a per-vty basis)".

Jethro.

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Jethro R Binks
Computing Officer, IT Services, University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK