Bug 1265749

Summary:	RFE:- Option to disable colourful output of journalctl
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Rupesh Patel <rupatel>
Component:	systemd	Assignee:	Jan Synacek <jsynacek>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Frantisek Sumsal <fsumsal>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:	Maxim Svistunov <msvistun>
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3	CC:	fsumsal, herrold, jscotka, jsynacek, kzak, lnykryn, pdwyer, saime, salmy, systemd-maint-list
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature, Patch, RFE
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	systemd-219-20.el7	Doc Type:	Release Note
Doc Text:	New variable for disabling colored output for systemd This update introduces the `SYSTEMD_COLORS` environment variable for systemd, which enables turning on or off systemd color output. `SYSTEMD_COLORS` should be set to a valid boolean value.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2016-11-04 00:43:09 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	1203710, 1289485, 1313485

Description Rupesh Patel 2015-09-23 16:24:11 UTC

By default, journalctl produce colourful output red, while lines based on line of level error, notice etc.... this seems to causing while using non-black screen. I guess it's reasonable request to provide switch (non default) to disable it for users who don't use non-black screen. 

I have checked my F22 and upstream page http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/journalctl.html. It looks like not discussed yet anywhere. 

Can we consider this as RFE?

thanks,
Rupesh

Comment 2 Lukáš Nykrýn 2015-09-25 07:25:22 UTC

There must be a way how to achieve tthis without any changes in systemd.
Output there is piped to a pager, so maybe you could just somehow adjust appropriate environment variables.

Comment 3 Karel Zak 2016-01-12 09:15:57 UTC

It would be nice to support disable/enable described in "man terminal-colors.d".

Comment 4 Jan Synacek 2016-01-19 09:35:34 UTC

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/2364

Comment 7 Jan Synacek 2016-01-20 12:49:10 UTC

Merged in https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/2381.

Comment 8 Lukáš Nykrýn 2016-01-28 13:34:31 UTC

https://github.com/lnykryn/systemd-rhel/commit/9d67a3a2d4fd378ca04726c5eb5f31ee222c50e4 -> push to staging

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-04 00:43:09 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-2216.html