[Asterisk-Users] Quick question regarding daily restart of asterisk

[Matt G]

Hi All,

I have a quick question regarding restarting (and/or 
stopping/restarting) asterisk daily -- Should it be done?

I've seen conflicting answers, some people have told me that the only 
reason for asterisk to be stopped/started daily was for mpg123 causing 
many childs, which has since been fixed using 'no buffer' or 'nb' 
appended to the line in musiconhold.conf.

Others have told me there is no reason whatsoever to restart/stop it, 
yet there's instructions on how to do it on the wiki, are these just 
outdated?

Is there any other reason why one would want to stop and restart 
asterisk daily? (or at any other scheduled time?)

On a related note, is asterisk -rx "restart now" the equivalent of 
asterisk -rx "stop now" && /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk (or whatever command 
is used to restart it)?. I have a job cronned on a slackware system to 
restart it daily using -rx "restart now" and it creates a new PID, and 
Process Time, but when I run the same thing on Redhat 9 I get an error 
saying that it exited on sig 13. I'm sure this is just a redhat specific 
thing as this isn't the only problem I'm running into, but it would be 
nice to find some answers.

Thanks,
Matt