On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 03:11:02AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2019-08-06 15:10:25 +0000, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > > [2012-05-20 11:37] "Marc Dequènes (Duck)" <[email protected]> > > > Fancy output should be deactivated or handled differently, but we > > > really need the ok/fail/warn status displayed properly. Having the > > > result of escape commands would be easier to parse than just removing > > > escape codes ("[ok] stuff" instead of "[....] stuff ok"). > > > > Nowdays bootlogd filters-out escape characters, so closing bug. I > > believe it was introduced in 2.91. > > Filtering out escape characters is useless without filtering out > the whole escape sequence. Actually, this is even worse, as this > prevents the escape sequences from being interpreted by the > terminal.
Aye, if you want to convert to plain text, you need to drop the whole sequence. A way to do so that handles any sequences that appear in regular files is in "ansi2txt" (package colorized-logs). That does remove rather than interpret them, though. Interpreting just a few select sequences might be reasonable; I've done this before. Still, you'd need a line buffer. > > I agree, that "[..] stuff ok" is not very readable, but it is not > > reasonable to expect bootlogd to actually interpret control sequences. > > Then it should not filter out anything. Agreed. > > I think it should be fixed in bin:lsb-base by changing style of > > decoration: placing [ok] at end of line, not beginning. > > Now that systemd became the default, the problem has been solved by > using it instead of sysvinit + bootlogd That's not a "solution". > a /var/log/boot.log file is > generated where nothing is filtered out, so that the file is readable > with "cat" or "less" (and text is colored). I don't think files in /var/log/ should be anything but plain text -- at least unless colorized-logs becomes essential :þ and/or less defaults to -R. But until a solution is implemented, I agree that leaving binaryish control codes intact is better than corrupting them. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian is one big family. Including that weird uncle ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ and ultra-religious in-laws. ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
