[asterisk-users] safe_asterisk ?

Paul Belanger pabelanger at digium.com
Wed Nov 23 10:15:40 CST 2011


On 11-11-23 09:21 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 08:16:36AM -0600, Danny Nicholas wrote:
>> Safe_asterisk refers to the bash script /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk which is
>> installed by all Asterisk installs whether by rpm, tar or svn.  It does
>> exhibit daemon-like behavior in that it is run as a background process and
>> will restart itself if you kill it incorrectly.
>
> Note that systems with upstart / systemd will do that more relibly. If
> you run asterisk under one of those, use a plain upstart / systemd init
> config rather than a legacy sysv init.d script and avoid using
> safe_asterisk.
>
We should consider updating the Makefile in asterisk trunk to start 
using them.  More and more OS are starting to support them.

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