[Asterisk-Dev] Re: The Zaptel init scripts must die!

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Tony Mountifield wrote:

> I use the zaptel init scripts on Fedora and Centos and find them useful.
> Especially if I upgrade, I just do:
> 
> # service zaptel stop ; make install ; service zaptel start
> 
> (of course Asterisk not running when I do that)

Hmm... I guess I hadn't considered that usage. That seems valid; I've 
always done it manually (or restarted completely) when doing a Zaptel 
upgrade.

> I don't know what alternative strategies there are, nor how udev would
> fit in with them - e.g. the wait loop in the init script.

I hereby retract the subject of this message :-) Now we just need to 
ensure that they work properly on the major distros that are not 
supported at this time (Gentoo and Debian are probably the most notable 
ones).