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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.)

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  • Do you mean [ OK ], [ FAILED ] flags when starting/stopping?
    – quanta
    Commented Nov 4, 2011 at 15:18
  • @quanta Yes; question updated.
    – ithinkihaveacat
    Commented Nov 4, 2011 at 15:44

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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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  • This works even when running scripts manually (i.e. not during bootup), amazingly enough. Is there any way to do this on a per-script basis, though? I'd rather not touch /etc/sysconfig/init.
    – ithinkihaveacat
    Commented Nov 4, 2011 at 15:57
  • I've expanded my answer above.
    – NorbyTheGeek
    Commented Nov 4, 2011 at 21:02

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