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Asked: 2011-11-05 07:14:48 +0800 CST

Disable colour output from /etc/init.d scripts?

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On RedHat/CentOS systems, all of the service management scripts in /etc/init.d (and also run by the "service" command) produce color output. (i.e. the "[ OK ]" and "[FAILED]" strings.) How do I disable this? (The color-producing escape sequences are making the webistrano output more ugly than it needs to be.)

redhat service color init.d capistrano

1 Answers

  1. Check out /etc/sysconfig/init. The top lines on my CentOS 5.x system:

    # color => new RH6.0 bootup
# verbose => old-style bootup
# anything else => new style bootup without ANSI colors or positioning
BOOTUP=color

    Changing the BOOTUP line to something like nocolor eliminates the formatting for all init scripts.

    If you just want to disable formatting on one of your scripts, add:

    BOOTUP=nocolor

    after the line that reads:

    /etc/init.d/functions
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