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

[David H Hickman]

This tends to be a religious issue.   I guess I am an older admin.  :)  
I come from the school of thought that it is a good idea to
reboot a server that is not meant to be used interactivly (console or 
terminal) on a schedule.  Most software does not require it.  In my 
experience, the systems that have some sort of auto reboot, typically 
run for years without any real maintenance.

My * box reboots itself on sundays at 0300.  It also rsyncs config 
files and voicemail on an hourly basis with another server ( that does 
not reboot.  All it does is act as a samba and nfs fileserver.)  Calls 
are scp as soon as they are combined after the call.


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On Oct 18, 2004, at 16:11, Matt G wrote:

> 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 outdated?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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