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

/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.