[Asterisk-Users] bad CLI colors? bad terminal?

[Matthew Boehm]

Dave Cotton wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 08:46 -0500, Matthew Boehm wrote:
>> Dave Cotton wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 20:05 -0500, Matthew Boehm wrote:
>>>> Holy crap! You mean someone actually "read" my email?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Andrew. Wish more people would read emails.
>>>
>>> Just read it :)
>>>
>>> I run from safe_asterisk and have the line
>>>
>>> ASTARGS="-n"
>>>
>>> in it.
>>>
>>>
>>> Because I too hate the changing background. WFM(tm)
>>
>> I did this:
>>
>> [root at asterisk root]# ASTARGS="-n"
>> [root at asterisk root]# asterisk -Rvvvvvvvvvvdgn
>>
>> Then made a call. The black background shows up right at the "G" of
>> the first "goto" statement.
>>
>> Would it make a difference if asterisk was started with -n or not?
>>
>> Seems to me that even if asterisk was started without -n that
>> asterisk should honor any subsequent reattachments CLI options.
>>
>
> Hey, I said I _read_ yours :)
>
> The ASTARGS="-n" is in the script safe_asterisk.
>
> It of course means you have to do a service stop/start to get it to
> kick in but after that ça marche.

Why would I have to start the server without colors? Why can't I just
reconnect to the server and during that single instance, not have colors?
Seems very microsoft-ish to force the "client" to use the same settings as
the "server".

-Matthew