[asterisk-users] Starting asterisk turns bash console text white in rxvt

[Raj Mathur ( राज माथुर )]

On Monday 31 Oct 2011, Sebastian Arcus wrote:
>  Every time I start Asterisk (just by issuing /usr/sbin/asterisk),
> the bash console text turns white. I'm using rxvt, so this makes
> everything pretty much invisible. If I login into the Asterisk
> console (asterisk -rvvv) - the text turns black again. This is not
> critical, but quite annoying. I've experienced it both with 1.6 and
> 1.8 installations. Maybe, just maybe this is a problem with rxvt -
> but I use it for absolutely everything on the command line - and no
> other application has problems of this type.

Try adding -n to the asterisk command-line arguments.  That is supposed 
to turn off colours (though I've had mixed results with it).  Also see 
the -B and -W options (again, not always effective for some reason).

Regards,

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