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

[Deon Rodden]

I wouldn't recommend a reload. More than once I've issued a "reload" to
Asterisk and it just sat there, never actually reloaded. Went into limbo,
wouldn't accept any future commands either. Had to kill -9 the process and
load it again. Plus certain changes you make, like certain changes to the
iax.conf file, don't get loaded when you do a reload. I spent an hour trying
to fix a problem, modify the iax, reload asterisk, problem still there.
Finally stopped asterisk, started it clean, problem was gone, same exact
config. 

As far as "stop now" and starting it again. I don't truly see the need.
Every once in a while I've had to do it to fix a quality issue or memory
problem or something odd. Maybe instead of once a day, once a week. Would
probably be good. I may implement this myself.

I'd recommend the "asterisk -rx "stop now" && /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk"
method to accomplish your goal. Maybe even a "stop now" && sleep 1 &&
killall -9 asterisk && sleep 1 && /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk"

Would take a little longer, but would ensure Asterisk is dead before
reloading it. 


-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Matt G
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 5:12 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Quick question regarding daily restart of asterisk

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outdated?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

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