[asterisk-users] /etc/asterisk/startup.d

[Philipp Kempgen]

Tzafrir Cohen schrieb:
> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 04:43:52PM +0200, Philipp Kempgen wrote:
>> Tzafrir Cohen schrieb:
>> > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 01:33:59PM +0200, Philipp Kempgen wrote:
>> >> Does anybody think it would make sense for /etc/init.d/asterisk
>> >> to run /etc/asterisk/startup.d/*.sh on start like safe_asterisk
>> >> did?
>> > 
>> > What would you put there?
>> 
>> Scripts to generate Asterisk config files in /etc/asterisk I guess.
>> Or scripts to log warnings to syslog if the configuration is insecure
>> (MySQL does that on Debian).
> 
> When exactly should those be run?
> 
> E.g.: asterisk -rx 'restart now' does not get them run. Do you want to
> guarantee some script to be run before Asterisk is started?
> 
> Should it be run on a reload? On a logger-reload action?

Again, good questions. In order not to make things too complicated
I'd say any scripts in /etc/asterisk/startup.d should be called by
/etc/init.d/asterisk with the argument (action) to /etc/init.d/asterisk
as an argument. If somebody was to circumvent /etc/init.d/asterisk
by calling asterisk -rx ... directly then so be it - no action in
this case.

OTOH it might be a nice thing to build this functionality into
Asterisk itself which could then even call these scripts on
asterisk -rx 'restart now', asterisk -rx 'reload' etc.

However given the lack of much feedback here it seems such a thing
is not useful for many people.

>> Or maybe scripts to open some ports on a firewall. Well, no, there
>> should be stop scripts as well then, so forget about the firewall.
>> OTOH: The scripts could be called with an argument just like init
>> scripts (start|stop|restart|...).
>> 
>> I'm not quite sure if that would be a useful thing to have or if
>> such tasks should rather be done by interdependent init scripts, i.e.
>> Required-Start, Required-Stop, Should-Start, Should-Stop headers.
>> 
>> > When should it be run?
>> 
>> Right before /etc/init.d/asterisk is about to (re?)start asterisk.
>> 
>> > As which user?
>> 
>> Good question. Obviously either as root because /etc/init.d/asterisk
>> is run by root or as Asterisk's runuser which is likely to be one
>> of root or asterisk. root would buy us more flexibility :-)


    Philipp Kempgen
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