[asterisk-users] Re: How to exit from console?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 01:37:50PM +0100, Tomislav Parčina wrote:
> In article <20070123131921.GT18852 at xorcom.com>, tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com says...
> > > Try safe_asterisk , for an easy way to start asterisk in background, 
> > 
> > a plain 'asterisk' is even better and safer.
> > asterisk -U asterisk . is better. 
> >   /etc/init.d/asterisk start
> > is similar.
> 
> Why is this better than safe_asterisk?

E.g: because you have a valid PID file of the controlling process. If
you actually want to kill it, you can.

And you don't need physical access to the system to get to the one and
only real console. OTOH, if you do have physical access, you have full
control of Asterisk, as you may inject custom dialplan.

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