Bug#982678: systemd: journalctl does not repect SYSTEMD_COLORS=0 - colors are still shown

[Jari Aalto]

On 2021-02-13 14:36, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 13.02.21 um 14:33 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> > Am 13.02.21 um 12:11 schrieb Jari Aalto:
> > > Package: systemd
> > > Version: 247.3-1
> > > Severity: minor
> > > 
> > > PROBLEM:
> > > 
> > >     env SYSTEMD_COLORS=0 journalctl -xe ssh
> > >     ^[[0;1;31mFailed to add match 'ssh': Invalid argument^[[0m
> > > 
> > 
> > I guess this is only about the error case?
> > When you run
> > 
> > SYSTEMD_COLORS=0 journalctl -b
> > 
> > it shouldn't use colors, right?
> > 
> 
> This is from the man page:
> "
>        When outputting to a tty, lines are colored according to priority:
> lines of level ERROR and higher are colored red; lines of level NOTICE and
> higher are highlighted; lines of level DEBUG are
>        colored lighter grey; other lines are displayed normally.
> "
> 
> SYSTEMD_COLORS=0 seems to properly work in that case.
> Regarding error messages from journalctl itself, it would probably be a good
> idea if you raise this upstream (we are not shipping any downstream patches
> in that regard).

It's Debian mainter's job to forward bugs to upstream.

Jari