From 8353d8b9bb34f8566d5edbe6ba2bd2d54dc617d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bar=C4=B1=C5=9F=20Soner=20U=C5=9Fakl=C4=B1?=
 <baris@nodebb.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 09:26:42 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] closes #6155

---
 src/prestart.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/prestart.js b/src/prestart.js
index 9b592cf4af..bfe305fa20 100644
--- a/src/prestart.js
+++ b/src/prestart.js
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ var dirname = require('./cli/paths').baseDir;
 function setupWinston() {
 	winston.remove(winston.transports.Console);
 	winston.add(winston.transports.Console, {
-		colorize: true,
+		colorize: nconf.get('log-colorize') !== 'false',
 		timestamp: function () {
 			var date = new Date();
 			return nconf.get('json-logging') ? date.toJSON() :