[ale] Anyone know a way to turn off color in systemctl output for systemd?

[Lightner, Jeff]

Well…

One does sort of have to get with Systemd given its adoption by a couple of major distros.    Overall I’m not unhappy with Systemd.

However, it does seem they may have the mindset of the guy at Mozilla that said “you don’t need a 64 bit browser” and closed the thread with people complaining that after all this time Firefox on Windows is still only 32 bit just because he didn’t want to hear form the dozens of users telling him he was wrong to think that way.

In the end what you make is designed for users so telling them their observations aren’t important isn’t a good way to get buy in.


From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of James Sumners
Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 5:52 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Anyone know a way to turn off color in systemctl output for systemd?

systemd knows what is good for you. What you want is not the right way. Get with systemd's way or get lost.

</not_really_sarcasm>

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at dsservices.com<mailto:JLightner at dsservices.com>> wrote:
I see others have same issue as I do that the default colors don’t display well on their terminal session.

A bug updated today says this isn’t unique to systemd as other items use colors.   While this is true to a degree it is also true that one can turn OFF these other things (i.e. one does NOT have to use colors with ls but can if they wish).   With systemctl it appears not to be an option at all.   (The LogColor=no apparently doesn’t solve this.)

One suggestion is to pipe the output through cat which works but it really seems there ought to be a way to adjust the colors to one’s liking or turn them off.

The only other suggestion I saw was to recompile which seems a bit much to change colors especially if one user wants them one way and another user wants them a different way.



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