[asterisk-users] Start asterisk on boot

[Stelios Koroneos]

On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 09:32 +0100, Ralf Träskman wrote:
> Hi
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> We runs asterisk 1.6 on a ubuntu 8.04 server.
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> How can I get asterisk to start at boot?
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> I have created an file named asterisk in /etc/event.d and put in this
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>    # This service maintains Asterisk from the point the system is
>    # started until it is shut down again.
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>    description     "Asterisk daemon"
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>    start on runlevel-2
>    stop on shutdown
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>    respawn
>    exec //usr/sbin/asterisk –f
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> But it doesn’t work.
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> Regards
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> /ralf 
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I am using the /etc/init.d/asterisk startup file and works
Just make sure that permissions are set correctly.
The default asterisk package from ubuntu reps runs as non-root so if you
have installed it prior to installing 1.6 some things will be warped.



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