[Asterisk-Users] Color in console

[Steven Critchfield]

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 01:39, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Steven Critchfield wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 17:56, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> >> Hey all.  I have a color-capable console (color ls works, and I can run
> >> any color-smart program like naim and bitchX), but for some reason the
> >> color in the console for asterisk, whether started with -c or
> >> safe_asterisk, isn't working for me.
> >>
> >> Any ideas as to why?
> >
> > check your TERM variable. I've seen apps just not like certain term
> > values.
> 
> "screen" in both.  That's not it.
> 
> Although I wonder if installing screen will insert the correct values into 
> the termcap file on the remote system.

Try changing it to 'linux'. While using screen before I didn't get
colors. But then again colors add something like 4 bytes of output to
every color change and cause the screen to eat more CPU as it scrolls. 
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>