[asterisk-users] /etc/asterisk/startup.d

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 02:47:51PM +0200, Philipp Kempgen wrote:
> Tzafrir Cohen schrieb:
> > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 04:43:52PM +0200, Philipp Kempgen wrote:
> >> Tzafrir Cohen schrieb:
> >> > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 01:33:59PM +0200, Philipp Kempgen wrote:
> >> >> Does anybody think it would make sense for /etc/init.d/asterisk
> >> >> to run /etc/asterisk/startup.d/*.sh on start like safe_asterisk
> >> >> did?
> >> > 
> >> > What would you put there?
> >> 
> >> Scripts to generate Asterisk config files in /etc/asterisk I guess.
> >> Or scripts to log warnings to syslog if the configuration is insecure
> >> (MySQL does that on Debian).
> > 
> > When exactly should those be run?
> > 
> > E.g.: asterisk -rx 'restart now' does not get them run. Do you want to
> > guarantee some script to be run before Asterisk is started?
> > 
> > Should it be run on a reload? On a logger-reload action?
> 
> Again, good questions. In order not to make things too complicated
> I'd say any scripts in /etc/asterisk/startup.d should be called by
> /etc/init.d/asterisk with the argument (action) to /etc/init.d/asterisk
> as an argument. If somebody was to circumvent /etc/init.d/asterisk
> by calling asterisk -rx ... directly then so be it - no action in
> this case.
> 
> OTOH it might be a nice thing to build this functionality into
> Asterisk itself which could then even call these scripts on
> asterisk -rx 'restart now', asterisk -rx 'reload' etc.

For those you can mostly use #exec .

Asterisk spends most of its life running as the user asterisk. If you
want your code running as root, you may have a problem.

> 
> However given the lack of much feedback here it seems such a thing
> is not useful for many people.

How useful are the equivalent safe_asterisk scripts? 

> 
> >> Or maybe scripts to open some ports on a firewall. Well, no, there
> >> should be stop scripts as well then, so forget about the firewall.
> >> OTOH: The scripts could be called with an argument just like init
> >> scripts (start|stop|restart|...).
> >> 
> >> I'm not quite sure if that would be a useful thing to have or if
> >> such tasks should rather be done by interdependent init scripts, i.e.
> >> Required-Start, Required-Stop, Should-Start, Should-Stop headers.
> >> 
> >> > When should it be run?
> >> 
> >> Right before /etc/init.d/asterisk is about to (re?)start asterisk.
> >> 
> >> > As which user?
> >> 
> >> Good question. Obviously either as root because /etc/init.d/asterisk
> >> is run by root or as Asterisk's runuser which is likely to be one
> >> of root or asterisk. root would buy us more flexibility :-)

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