[asterisk-users] problem with safe_asterisk

[Gordon Henderson]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 01:35:50PM +0100, Andrea De Vita wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have installed some Asterisk machine, all with the same problem.
>> My typical configuration is:
>> - Asterisk 1.2.14 (or 1.4.0beta3)
>> - CentOS 4.4 server.
>>
>>
>> The problem is this:
>> When I start Asterisk with the default init script (/etc/init.d/asterisk
>> start) distributed with the source, and kill (or kill -9) Asterisk-pid,
>> then safe_asterisk doesn't correctly work (it dies and not restart
>> Asterisk).
>> Instead, if I start Asterisk with safe_asterisk command from shell,
>> after "kill Asterisk-pid", safe_asterisk restart Asterisk correctly.
>>
>> I would use the init script because I like to use Linux-HA that require
>> this.
>
> Edit that init.d script lightly not to use safe_asterisk.
> safe_asterisk is not close to robust anyway, and thus will only
> complicate things.

Seconded. Have a look at this:

http://www.drogon.net/init.d.asterisk

Gordon