1 .TH SAFE_ASTERISK 8 "Jun 30th, 2005" "Asterisk" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
4 \(em A wrapper to run the asterisk executable in a loop
12 is a script that runs asterisk in a loop, which can be useful if you
13 fear asterisk may crash.
15 The script does not run in the background like a standard service. Rather,
16 it runs in its own linux virtual console (9, by default).
17 It also uses the option '-c' of asterisk(8) to avoid detaching asterisk
20 safe_asterisk also runs asterisk with unlimited core file size, and thus
21 asterisk will dump core in case of a crash.
23 To get a "picture" of console 9, from another terminal (e.g: from a
24 remote shell session) you can use:
28 The init script of the Debian package should be able to run safe_asterisk
29 as the asterisk service, if so configured. See coments in
35 safe_asterisk runs in that directory, rather than in / as usual.
40 If core files were generated there, they may be
44 While showing the output on a console is useful, using screen(1) as
45 the terminal may be better.
47 The script does not read configuration from standard location under /etc
49 It uses fixed locations under /tmp , and thus may be exposed to a
53 asterisk(8), screendump(9)
56 This manual page was written by Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com>
57 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under
58 the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any
59 later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
61 On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public
62 License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.