Peter Oliver @mavit@bergamot.social

@jezhiggins 1000 Trades Square, just now. Middle aged man with dark hair and dark jacket seen buying cone for small boy of similar description.

@sil What a relief, then, that you still have plenty of time to crack this before you turn 40 and become ineligibile for a Fields Medal.

Finally, if your terminal’s ANSI yellow isn’t readable, maybe see https://www.mavit.org.uk/termcolours/ or https://www.mavit.org.uk/tango-putty/

Another alternative would be to set a background colour for coloured text, but some people would consider that ugly. I don’t think there’s solution that makes everyone happy.

The question remains, is it a good idea to have an “unbreak this broken behaviour” setting? One alternative would be to make SYSTEMD_COLORS=auto-16 the default, but that fails for people who don’t have the ANSI colours in their terminal configured for good contrast (some well-known terminals, such as PuTTY and XTerm, still have poor defaults for this use-case, for one colour or another).

This will be available from systemd version 260 (but you can set it now; it won’t do any harm). Full documentation: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/devel/systemd.html#%24SYSTEMD_COLORS