[asterisk-users] Starting Asterisk on Ubuntu 7.04

[Remco Post]

Mark Coccimiglio wrote:
> Tzafrir;
>    Actually I have found this config to work really well.  I prefer to
> use a script run from inittab but Ubuntu doesn't work like Redhat or
> BSD.  On a production box keeping asterisk up and running is "THE TOP"
> priority.  If you would rather check every five minutes then replace the
> first "*" with "*/5".  I will address your points as it seems that you
> haven't really thought about this.
> 
> 1)  In a production environment you should NOT be messing with the
> config.  That's what test hardware is for.
> 
> 2) The answer to this question is: "crontab -e" its really not that
> hard.  I'm not running asterisk every minute.  I'm looking to see if
> asterisk is running and then act accordingly
> 
> 3) If asterisk fails believe me a full mailbox is the least of my
> worries.  As for full logs I'd rather have more information...."grep &
> awk" are your friends.
> 
> I prefer to keep things as simple as possible.  Sure scripts like
> "safe_asterisk" are nice and do some
> really neat things but lets face it how often do you actually sit at the
> console of your asterisk box.  My
> main PBX is located about 7 feet from my office desk and I still mostly
> use ssh (not even telnet) to get
> into the box.

at least on ubuntu 6.10 safe_asterisk requires one simple fix, not
really a headbreaker (something with output redirection). You could
actually edit the script to not start a console if you dont' want it to
(say for security reasons).

If you wanted to start asterisk and keep monitoring it, that is what
init is for. I don't know about ubuntu startup, but traditional sysV
init would simply restart a process if it ever quits (respawn). My bet
is that startup can do the same somehow, this is a far better way to
keep * up....


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