[asterisk-bugs] [Asterisk 0018776]: asterisk -rx 'core show version' returns an ANSI string, which is not evaluated correctly with debian init.d script.

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https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=18776 
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Reported By:                alecdavis
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    Asterisk
Issue ID:                   18776
Category:                   Core/General
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
Asterisk Version:           1.8.2.3 
JIRA:                        
Regression:                 No 
Reviewboard Link:            
SVN Branch (only for SVN checkouts, not tarball releases): N/A 
SVN Revision (number only!):  
Request Review:              
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Date Submitted:             2011-02-09 14:25 CST
Last Modified:              2011-02-09 14:58 CST
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Summary:                    asterisk -rx 'core show version' returns an ANSI
string, which is not evaluated correctly with debian init.d script.
Description: 
this fails and tries to restart asterisk, although it's already
running.<pre>
 start)
        # Check if Asterisk is already running.  If it is, then bug out,
because
        # starting up Asterisk when Asterisk is already running is very
bad.
        VERSION=`${DAEMON} -rx 'core show version' || ${TRUE}`
        if [ "`echo $VERSION | cut -c 1-8`" = "Asterisk" ]; then
                echo "Asterisk is already running.  $0 will exit now."
                exit 1
        fi
 ...
     # "start-stop-daemon --oknodo" returns 0 even if Asterisk was already
running (as LSB expects):
        start-stop-daemon --start --oknodo --exec $DAEMON --
$ASTARGS</pre>

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 (0131752) lmadsen (administrator) - 2011-02-09 14:58
 https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=18776#c131752 
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$ asterisk -rnx 'core show version' does exactly what you want (removes the
ANSI colorization)

Perhaps the fix here is just to modify the init.d script to use -rnx
instead of -rx. 

Issue History 
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2011-02-09 14:58 lmadsen        Note Added: 0131752                          
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