On 2014-06-25 15:02 (GMT+0100) Richard W.M. Jones composed:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 12:06:10AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
Was there good reason to change it? For well over a decade across
all distros I've used, I've included this line in root's .bashrc,
always:
setterm -foreground white -bold -background blue -blank 59 -store
The current man page has changed to require "--" where "-" was
sufficient previously. Now my ancient .bashrc generates
setterm: argument error: -background
on login, and nothing that worked before works now. :-(
This is a non backwards compatible change in upstream util-linux:
commit fb27f91cac9702ad1858d782dd840d5868547423
Author: Sami Kerola <kerolasa iki.fi>
Date: Mon May 19 22:21:14 2014 +0100
setterm: recommend long options with double hyphen
While the -version style options will work for next unknown number of
years start moving towards user interface that has way of invoking long
options as most of the other commands.
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa iki.fi>
so sooner or later it's going to affect all distros ...
My suggestion would be to replace your command with:
if setterm --help 2>&1 | grep -q -- --background; then
setterm --foreground white --bold --background blue --blank 59 --store
else
setterm -foreground white -bold -background blue -blank 59 -store
fi
But yes, backwards incompatible changes suck, although in this case
setterm has historically done something non-standard.
setterm --foreground white --bold --background blue --blank 59 --store
produces nearly the same error message:
setterm: argument error: --background
Note that the argument the message apparently applies to is neither first nor
last.
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