[asterisk-users] What do you do to keep asterisk alive?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 07:16:48AM -0500, J. Oquendo wrote:
> Per Jessen wrote:
> > Andrea Spadaccini wrote:
> > 
> >> IMHO it's better to build a FSM (Finite State Machine) that handles
> >> the Asterisk process and other collateral processes (like the MAPI
> >> proxy) and let it monitor the process.
> >>
> >> Moreover, you should make this FSM sensible to UNIX signals in order
> >> to start, stop, restart Asterisk easily if you want.
> > 
> > Hi Andrea
> > 
> > that's exactly the kind of elaborate scheme I was hoping to avoid.  What
> > do you do today? 
> > 
> > 
> > /Per Jessen, Zürich
> > 
> 
> 
> echo "/bin/ps -C asterisk || { /usr/sbin/asterisk & }" >
> /usr/local/bin/alwaysup
> chmod +x /usr/local/bin/alwaysup
> 
> In your crontab:
> */1 * * * * /usr/local/bin/alwaysup >/dev/null 2>&1

That's even worse. I can imagine what happeens if you actually decided
you wanted to stop Asterisk.

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