diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index af84c569..ee19d377 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 # ChangeLog for Gentoo System Intialization ("rc") scripts
 # Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPLv2
 
+  26 Jun 2007; Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>:
+
+    --nocolor works again, #181011 thanks to Daniel Drake.
+
   21 Jun 2007; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>:
 
     Allow urandom location to be customized #134489.
diff --git a/src/libeinfo.c b/src/libeinfo.c
index 470bf92f..b5d0fa19 100644
--- a/src/libeinfo.c
+++ b/src/libeinfo.c
@@ -154,6 +154,9 @@ static bool colour_terminal (void)
 	if (in_colour == 1)
 		return (true);
 
+	if (is_env ("RC_NOCOLOR", "yes"))
+		return (false);
+
 	if (! term) {
 		term = getenv ("TERM");
 		if (! term)