chefctl on Chef 16 on macos does not result in colored output

[erikng]

I'm at a loss on this one, but I've noticed that chefctl does not result in colored output when using Chef 16 (Chef Infra Client: 16.1.16)

After attaching some debugging I've confirmed that sudo chefctl -icH is equivalent to sudo /opt/chef/bin/chef-client -l fatal -F doc --no-fork.

The only thing I can come up with is the ruby /opt/chef/embedded/bin/ruby has updated some gems that are prohibiting this behavior or have simply changed.

[jaymzh]

My guess is that Chef is doing more work to determine when it's output is being piped, and because we're a pipe it's going "aw shit, best not send colors!" If you update your chefctl config and add --color to your chef-client opts, does that work?

[jaymzh]

btw, I'm keeping up with bleeding edge 15 but have not started testing 16 yet, mostly because I'm still watching the fun string of bugs and bugfixes :) I'll probably try out 16 in a month or so.

[jaymzh]

(also, for the purposes of testing, chefctl -i -- --color will work)

[erikng]

chefctl -i -- --color does not seem to work for me. I also force changed color to true in the chefctl.rb file itself before posting this and it had not effect.

[jaymzh]

Interesting. I'm happy to setup 16 somewhere, but I don't have access to osx. Is this reproducible on linux?

[erikng]

I haven't tried on Linux yet since we haven't started testing chef 16 on non-macOS. Thanks, Erik Gomez

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