[asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6 SSH Console Colors Debian Lenny

[Olivier]

2011/1/23 Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com>

> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 06:22:23PM +0000, A J Stiles wrote:
> > On Thursday 20 Jan 2011, JR Richardson wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I'm running * 1.6.0.28 on Debian Lenny.  The init'd script starts the
> > > asterisk daemon not the safe_asterisk daemon so when asterisk is
> > > running and I ssh tot he server then 'asterisk -vr' to attach to the
> > > asterisk console there are no colors.  If I use the safe_asterisk
> > > script to start asterisk, the colors are fine when I attach through
> > > SSH.
> >
> > I'm running Debian but have been running Asterisk since before there was
> a
> > proper Debian package, and so I ended up writing my own init.d script.
>  See
> > attached.  No guarantees or anything  :)
>
> A number of things I did not like about it:
>
> 1. I don't trust safe_asterisk to properly handle being run twice and
> such.
>
> 2. Likewise with daemonization. safe_asterisk is still at the console.
>
> 3. You run asterisk as root. And use /var/run/asterisk.pid . Please use
> a non-root user and /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.pid .
>
> 4. On 'restart' you do nothing if the process was not running. That's
> not the standard semantics.
>
> 5. Even if a pid file exists, it does not mean that the process listed
> in it is your process.
>
> In short:
>
> A. Don't re-invent start-stop-daemon.
>
> B. Let's just move to upstart/systemd so there won't be a need for this
> stupid guardian "safe" asterisk.
>

All these reasons seem fine for me.
So the remaining question is "how can we still get colors with ssh console
?".
Is it compliant with start-stop-daemon, for instance ?

Cheers
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