[Asterisk-Users] vserver (Debian) - no tty: howto use /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk with "-c" for color CLI?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 04:10:54PM +0200, Robert Michel wrote:
> Salve Tzafrir!
> 
> On Sat, 08 Jul 2006, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> 
> > Right. Don't use safe_asterisk . asterisk daemonises just fine on its
> > own. asterisk -r gives you a nice console. If you want a complete trace,
> > you have the logs at your disposal: take a visit at logger.conf.
> 
> AFAIK will safe_asterik restart automaticaly asteriks when asterik will crash.
> Wrong?
> 
> > You've just added quite a few more points of failure to Asterisk and
> > complicated thinhgs even further. 
> 
> Well, I must agree - that's the wrong way.
> When I and other test that patch and it is working,
> will it become part of standard asterisk?

Are colors that important to you? It shouldn't be complicated to get it
working. I'll have a look.

> 
> > Why bother using safe_sterisk?
> 
> Has been safe_asterik sinificant reason for trouble?
> (Sorry when I'm new and missed discussion about it)

Extra layer of complication. And a non-optimal handling of errors. It
can just too easily get asterisk into a loop where it remains
non-functional but impossible to kill with standard scripts.

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