[Asterisk-Dev] 'remote' console color

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Friday 07 October 2005 00:27, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 03:23:44PM -0500, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 October 2005 12:42, Chris Wade wrote:
> > > I recently upgraded to head for some testing in a production
> > > environment (very forgiving user group :) and noticed that there
> > > is no color on the 'remote' console.  If I start asterisk with
> > > 'asterisk -c' I get color, but any other way, no color!  I've
> > > 'fixed' this below, but I don't think this fix is right as the
> > > line I've changed hasn't been touched since 2002.  Could someone
> > > please comment on this as I remember seeing something about color
> > > output in the last two or three months of cvs updates.
> >
> > Check the contents of your TERM variable.  It should indicate a
> > terminal type for which color is available.  If it is not (e.g.
> > xterm, instead of xterm-color), then Asterisk does not generate the
> > color codes.
>
> In the init script that runs the asterisk daemon? Why should it
> matter to remote asterisk -r-s?

Because it's the main Asterisk process which generates the messages;
they are simply passed to the remote console.

> > Note that this takes effect when you start Asterisk, not when you
> > connect to it from a remote console.
>
> What then?

What?

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Tilghman