[asterisk-users] Lightning and thunder (Claude Hayn

[William Kenworthy]

On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 09:57 +0100, Paul Hayes wrote:
> On 27/07/11 19:41, Claude Hayn wrote:
> >
> > The office manager freaks out each time and starts randomly rebooting
> > devices in no particular order including the UPS, PBX, Asterisk Gateway,
> > firewall and router.
> >
> 
> Ahh that old chestnut.  That's never a good thing, try to tell them not 
> to do this, although I know it's hard, I have customers who love to 
> reboot things too.
> 
> If it is the Asterisk system coming online too early causing problems on 
> the old PBX, does the UPS you are using have a power-on delay feature? 
> In some UPS you can set delays for various sockets on them.  Designed 
> for situations like this and also so everything doesn't try to power up 
> at once causing a power surge.
> 
> cheers,
> Paul.
> 
> --

Remove asterisk from the init process (not sure what distro you have)
and put it in the equivalent of gentoos local.start - the last file run
by the initscripts is for the user to put their own stuff, and because
its last, the system should then be ok when asterisk comes online - if
not its something else causing a problem.

BillK