[Asterisk-Users] Graceful CLI/crontab reboot

[Matt Gibson]

I have a script that I wrote that actually stops and restarts the server 
(asterisk -rx "stop now" && su asterisk -c /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk).

It works fine on slackware, but not on fedora, not too sure why. You're 
welcome to use this if you want.

---- script

#!/bin/bash

# must be running asterisk as a user for this to work 'out of the box'
# cp restart_asterisk.sh /usr/sbin
# chown root.bin /usr/sbin/restart_asterisk.sh (or wheel or whatever, i run it as root)
# chmod +x /usr/sbin/restart_asterisk
# 
# then add to cron
# #crontab -e 
# 
# # this is to stop and start asterisk daily at 4:20am
# 20 4 * * * /usr/sbin/restart_asterisk.sh | mail root

# Variables 

# user settings
SU="/bin/su"
SUUSER="asterisk"
USEROPT="-c /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk"

# asterisk specific
SAFEAST="/usr/sbin/safe_asterisk"
ASTERISK="/usr/sbin/asterisk"
PIDFILE="/var/run/asterisk/asterisk.pid"

# nothing to edit here..

if [ -f $SAFEAST ]; then
	if [ -x !$SAFEAST ]; then
		echo ""
		echo "no asterisk to be run ... wussup"
		# put mail thing here 
		exit 1
	fi
else
  	echo ""
  	echo "no asterisk to be run ... wussup"
  	# put mail thing here
  	exit 1
fi 

if [ -f $ASTERISK ]; then 
	#checks for pidfile existence
	if [ -x $ASTERISK ]; then

		if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
			echo ""
			echo -n "stopping and restarting asterisk:"
			
			# stop asterisk
			# figure out why that can't be a variable.. 
			$ASTERISK -rx "stop now"
		
			# make sure the pidfile disappears
			while [ -f $PIDFILE ]; do
				wait
			done	
	
			# start asterisk
			$SU $SUUSER $USEROPT 
			echo -n " successfull"
			echo ""
			exit 0
		else
			$SU $SUUSER $USEROPT
			echo ""
			echo -n "starting asterisk:"
			echo -n " successfull"
			echo ""
			exit 0
		fi

	
	else
		echo "asterisk not executable"
		exit 1;
	fi
else
	echo "no asterisk executable .. fix things"
	exit 1
fi


-- end script



Neil Cherry wrote:

> Andrew Edmond wrote:
>
>> Asterisk Community --
>>  
>> I'm looking for a way to gracefully shutdown asterisk at least once a
>> day and bring it back online.  I'm using Gentoo Linux and using
>> safe_asterisk from /etc/init.d/asterisk.
>>  
>> Anybody have a handy CLI/crontab script that accomplishes this?
>>  
>> Andrew
>>
>>
>>
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>
> How about putting this in cron, as root type crontab -e and then
> add the following:
>
> # reload asterisk every day at midnight exactly 
>                                $00 00 * * * /etc/init.d/asterisk stop 
> ; sleep 2 ; /etc/init.d/asterisk start
>