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How to change the color and text of the message while you start or stop a service?

For CentOS 6.10 the following file contains the color configuration for SETCOLOR_SUCCESS, SETCOLOR_FAILURE, ...

/etc/sysconfig/init

Example:

# color => new RH6.0 bootup
# verbose => old-style bootup
# anything else => new style bootup without ANSI colors or positioning
BOOTUP=color
# column to start "[ OK ]" label in 
RES_COL=60
# terminal sequence to move to that column. You could change this
# to something like "tput hpa $RES_COL" if your terminal supports it
MOVE_TO_COL="echo -en \033[$RES_COLG"
# terminal sequence to set color to a 'success' color (currently: green)
SETCOLOR_SUCCESS="echo -en \033[0;32m"
# terminal sequence to set color to a 'failure' color (currently: red)
SETCOLOR_FAILURE="echo -en \033[0;31m"
# terminal sequence to set color to a 'warning' color (currently: yellow)
SETCOLOR_WARNING="echo -en \033[0;33m"
# terminal sequence to reset to the default color.
SETCOLOR_NORMAL="echo -en \033[0;39m"

Maybe you can use the information and names to find the correct files on your system :)

These definitions are in /etc/init.d/functions.

That script attempts to source in /etc/sysconfig/init, which contains the pertinent color definitions:

SETCOLOR_SUCCESS="echo -en \033[0;32m"
SETCOLOR_FAILURE="echo -en \033[0;31m"
SETCOLOR_WARNING="echo -en \033[0;33m"
SETCOLOR_NORMAL="echo -en \033[0;39m"

... while the original /etc/init.d/functions file defines functions for the various status messages, for example:

echo_success() 
 [ "$BOOTUP" = "color" ] && $MOVE_TO_COL
 echo -n "["
 [ "$BOOTUP" = "color" ] && $SETCOLOR_SUCCESS
 echo -n $" OK "
 [ "$BOOTUP" = "color" ] && $SETCOLOR_NORMAL
 echo -n "]"
 echo -ne "r"
 return 0

... so if you wanted to emit something instead of OK, you'd edit that echo statement, and if you wanted to change the colors, you'd edit the corresponding definitions in /etc/sysconfig/init; if you do not have that file, note that the functions script will define the colors itself (in the else clause where it tests for the existence of the init file).