[asterisk-users] safe_asterisk ?

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com
Wed Nov 23 08:21:18 CST 2011


On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 08:16:36AM -0600, Danny Nicholas wrote:
> Safe_asterisk refers to the bash script /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk which is
> installed by all Asterisk installs whether by rpm, tar or svn.  It does
> exhibit daemon-like behavior in that it is run as a background process and
> will restart itself if you kill it incorrectly.

Note that systems with upstart / systemd will do that more relibly. If
you run asterisk under one of those, use a plain upstart / systemd init
config rather than a legacy sysv init.d script and avoid using
safe_asterisk.

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