Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Ben Franksen via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Mon, 12 Apr 2021 19:48:05 +0200

Am 12.04.21 um 08:22 schrieb Michael Davidsaver:
> On 4/9/21 4:05 AM, Ben Franksen via Tech-talk wrote:
>> Is there a way in streamdevice to
>>
>> (a) turn off coloring of messages?
>> (b) turn off the timestamps added to messages?
>>
>> Rationale: we log everything happening on an IOC's console and the color
>> escape codes make the logs hard to read.
> 
> I've been trying out the idea of adding color in the IOC core
> to make error messages during iocInit more apparent.  To avoid
> the complaint you make in the case of errlog, I add some code
> which strips out some ANSI escape sequences prior to logging.
> 
> https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base/pull/113
> 
> Of course this is no help for eg. procserv or screen.

Indeed, we use procServ directly to log everything, not just errors,
because it is very helpful to see what has been done on the console, too.

> Although, in the case of procserv some similar stripping
> could be added.

True. I already played with a quick and dirty shell script to remove at
least the red color coding...

Cheers
Ben
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System