[asterisk-users] Use safe_asterisk manually, you get colors in CLI. Crontab it, you don't.

[Mark Hamilton]

Hello,

Colors in the CLI have helped me ignore notices/warnings, etc and
concentrate better on stuff that I want to look out for during testing.

I've noticed that a simple restart would not bring back the colors in
the CLI. Asterisk needs to either start on boot, or start by way of
safe_asterisk to have colors in the CLI.

To top this, I always restart asterisk nightly.
My restart script code:

#!/bin/bash
time=`date`
echo "I ran at $time" >> /root/asterisklog
/usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "stop now"
/usr/sbin/safe_asterisk

This basically shows that safe_asterisk is being defined, YET everytime
the restart script is executed by crontab, I don't see the colors.
Unless ofcourse I manually stop now, and safe_asterisk.

What gives?
I just want to have an auto restart, and CLI with colors!


Regards,
Mark.

PS: Sorry for the other HTML mail.