Bug 1265749 – RFE:- Option to disable colourful output of journalctl

Bug 1265749 - RFE:- Option to disable colourful output of journalctl

Summary:	RFE:- Option to disable colourful output of journalctl

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	systemd (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.3
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
Target Milestone:	rc
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Assigned To:	Jan Synacek
QA Contact:	Frantisek Sumsal
Docs Contact:	Maxim Svistunov

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Keywords:	FutureFeature, Patch, RFE

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Blocks:	1203710 1289485 1313485
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Reported:	2015-09-23 12:24 EDT by Rupesh Patel
Modified:	2016-11-03 20:43 EDT (History)
CC List:	9 users (show)

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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.
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Last Closed:	2016-11-03 20:43:09 EDT
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Description Rupesh Patel 2015-09-23 12:24:11 EDT

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 03:25:22 EDT

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 04:15:57 EST

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

Comment 4 Jan Synacek 2016-01-19 04:35:34 EST

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

Comment 7 Jan Synacek 2016-01-20 07:49:10 EST

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

Comment 8 Lukáš Nykrýn 2016-01-28 08:34:31 EST

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

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-03 20:43:09 EDT

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

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