Bug#783692: systemd: systemctl output is unreadable on light background

[Juergen Stuber]

Package: systemd
Version: 215-17
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

the default colors of systemctl output are unreadable in my terminals,
where I use a light background.  I tried to set LogColor=no in
/etc/systemd/system.conf and /etc/systemd/user.conf , but that didn't
help.

IMHO the default should be not to use color for command line tools
where the background is not controlled by the tool, or at the very
least to provide a simple way to turn it off (a command line option).
IMHO there should also be a configuration option to turn it off
permanently.


Regards

Jürgen


-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  acl             2.2.52-2
ii  adduser         3.113+nmu3
ii  initscripts     2.88dsf-59
ii  libacl1         2.2.52-2
ii  libaudit1       1:2.4-1+b1
ii  libblkid1       2.25.2-6
ii  libc6           2.19-18
ii  libcap2         1:2.24-8
ii  libcap2-bin     1:2.24-8
ii  libcryptsetup4  2:1.6.6-5
ii  libgcrypt20     1.6.3-2
ii  libkmod2        18-3
ii  liblzma5        5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3
ii  libpam0g        1.1.8-3.1
ii  libselinux1     2.3-2
ii  libsystemd0     215-17
ii  mount           2.25.2-6
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-59
ii  udev            215-17
ii  util-linux      2.25.2-6

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus            1.8.16-1
ii  libpam-systemd  215-17

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
pn  systemd-ui  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/systemd/system.conf changed [not included]
/etc/systemd/user.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information