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 coments 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

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.

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