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 comments 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

       /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.

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-2.

Asterisk                                         Jun 30th, 2005                                 SAFE_ASTERISK(8)