[Asterisk-Users] Daily Reboot Script for Asterisk Question

[Roger Hill]

Basically, it's looping waiting for asterisk to disappear.

Your first command says 'shutdown when convenient'
The line in question looks to see if asterisk is still running - if it 
is, it waits 5 seconds then looks again.
When it finds that asterisk is no longer running, it drops into the 
'remove module' stuff.

So it's making sure that asterisk has died before zapping the modules 
that asterisk needs.

HTH
Roger

Min Hwan Chang wrote:

>Currently I'm using the daily reboot script for asterisk and I was
>just wondering what the following line actually does:
>while /bin/ps ax | /bin/grep '[s]afe_asterisk' >/dev/null; do sleep 5; done
>
>It is from this script which I'm running through crontab:
>/usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "stop when convenient"
>while /bin/ps ax | /bin/grep '[s]afe_asterisk' >/dev/null; do sleep 5; done
>/sbin/rmmod wctdm
>/sbin/modprobe wctdm
>/usr/sbin/safe_asterisk
>
>Yes I understand that daily reboot is unnecessary but until I find the
>problem, this works for our needs.  I'm wondering what that line does
>because last night when the Cron job started running, it kept running
>the job over and over until I got an out of memory error... as seen
>below:
>
>/var/log/messages
>Nov  9 04:15:32 localhost kernel: Registered tone zone 0 (United States / North$
>Nov  9 04:18:00 localhost kernel: Freed a Wildcard
>Nov  9 04:18:02 localhost kernel: Freshmaker version: 71
>Nov  9 04:18:02 localhost kernel: Freshmaker passed register test
>Nov  9 04:18:02 localhost kernel: Module 0: Installed -- AUTO FXO (FCC mode)
>Nov  9 04:18:02 localhost kernel: Module 1: Installed -- AUTO FXO (FCC mode)
>Nov  9 04:18:02 localhost kernel: Module 2: Installed -- AUTO FXO (FCC mode)
>Nov  9 04:18:02 localhost kernel: Module 3: Installed -- AUTO FXO (FCC mode)
>Nov  9 04:18:02 localhost kernel: Found a Wildcard TDM: Wildcard TDM400P REV E/$
>Nov  9 04:18:02 localhost kernel: Registered tone zone 0 (United States / North$
>Nov  9 07:07:12 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 11022 (sendmail$
>Nov  9 07:08:57 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2722 (sendmail).
>Nov  9 07:09:04 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 21792 (sendmail$
>Nov  9 07:09:10 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 24036 (sendmail$
>Nov  9 07:11:00 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Killed proc
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