[Asterisk-Users] I give up!!

[marrandy]

On Thursday 16 October 2003 09:21, Dave Alan Caruana wrote:

> The problems I faced were the following :
> - initially a problem with asterisk crashing totally when there wasn't an
> extension
>   to ring .. though this was fixed in a subsequent CVS, it was causing
> downtime.
>   the client has no unix knowledge, and a script I put in to kick in the
> asterisk
>   when it shut itself down didn't seem to always work.
> 
>   it also reduced the quality of my subsequent callout requests to something
> on
>   the lines of "the phone server is crashed again" regardless of what the
> problem was


I suggest people download and install dameontools 

http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

and have asterisk as a supervised service.

If it fails, supervise will restart it after 5 seconds.

Regards...Martin

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