[Asterisk-Users] asterisk monitor

[TC]

>Every once in a while, our asterisk process hangs.
>We haven't been able to figure out why, but
>in the mean time, we've operated around the issue
>using the brute force script below.  I hope you find 
>this useful.
sounds like asterisk is  its deadlocked or seg faulting 
this work around is realy just hiding the issue, should realy get to
the bottom of it rather than having faulty code out there :)
2 suggestions
if you don't get any response
1) check if the parent asterisk process still has pid
    if it does attach to the dead process with gdb
    cd /usr/src/asterisk ; gdb ./asterisk pid
    once gdb loads, do 
    info threads
    then 
    for each running thread  switch to each thread
     thread 1
     then do a bt
    next ...
    post that to the list
2) no asterisk process running 
   check for a core file and run a bt on the core file from gdb
  cd /usr/src/asterisk
  gdb ./asterisk core.?????
   bt
   and post that to the list