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SAFE_ASTERISK(8) Linux Programmer's Manual SAFE_ASTERISK(8)

safe_asterisk — A wrapper to run the asterisk executable in a loop

safe_asterisk [ asterisk_params ]

safe_asterisk is a script that runs asterisk in a loop, which can be useful if you fear asterisk may crash.

The script does not run in the background like a standard service. Rather, it runs in its own linux virtual console (9, by default). It also uses the option '-c' of asterisk(8) to avoid detaching asterisk from that terminal.

safe_asterisk also runs asterisk with unlimited core file size, and thus asterisk will dump core in case of a crash.

To get a "picture" of console 9, from another terminal (e.g: from a remote shell session) you can use:


screendump 9

The init script of the Debian package should be able to run safe_asterisk as the asterisk service, if so configured. See comments in /etc/default/asterisk

/tmp

safe_asterisk runs in that directory, rather than in / as usual.

/tmp/core

If core files were generated there, they may be

/etc/asterisk/startup.d

Files in this directory will be 'source'd by the safe_asterisk script before it starts Asterisk proper, allowing them to set additional environment variables or run any other steps that are needed for your system.

While showing the output on a console is useful, using screen(1) as the terminal may be better.

The script does not read configuration from standard location under /etc

It uses fixed locations under /tmp , and thus may be exposed to a symlink attacks.

asterisk(8), screendump(9)

This manual page was written by Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com> Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.

Jun 30th, 2005 Asterisk