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Launching a curses script with screen -dm

Hey guys,

Having a problem with a script using the curses module... It works fine
if I start it like so:

screen python script.py

However, if I want to start it in detached mode (i restart it every day
through cron, so I need to be able to do this), like so:

screen -dm python script.py

I get this error:

_curses.error: start_color() returned ERR

Is it because a TERM variable isn't set properly? I'm running screen
with -T xterm, which should take care of that...

Any insight would be appreciated :)

-Rob Thomas

Nov 4 '05 #1
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