[asterisk-users] colors in the console

[Michel R Vaillancourt]

> 
> You seem to start asterisk with safe_asterisk. That script 
> starts asterisk on a console of its own. Maybe it wa done to 
> allow the use of colors. 
> 
> If you want a plain 'asterisk' to run with colors, try the patch in
> http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=9048
> 

	Hi, Tzafrir ... The patch you submitted doesn't work with earlier
1.2 versions of Ast due to renaming of variables...  This version does work
in those cases:

/*------- begin ---------*/ 
--- term.c      2006-12-13 09:24:11.000000000 -0500
+++ term.c      2007-02-15 16:28:24.000000000 -0500
@@ -78,9 +78,12 @@
        char buffer[512] = "";
        int termfd = -1, parseokay = 0, i;

+       if (!option_console || !option_nofork)
+               term = "xterm";
+
        if (!term)
                return 0;
-       if (!option_console || option_nocolor || !option_nofork)
+       if (option_nocolor)
                return 0;

        for (i=0 ;; i++) {

/*--------- end ---------*/

	--Michel