SAFE_ASTERISK(8)

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

SYNOPSIS

safe_asterisk [ asterisk_params ]

DESCRIPTION
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 coments in /etc/default/asterisk

FILES
/tmp
    safe_asterisk runs in that directory, rather than in / as usual.
/tmp/core
    If core files were generated there, they may be

BUGS
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.

SEE ALSO
asterisk(8), screendump(9)

AUTHOR
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.