Comments on: Linux – Auto restart Asterisk with inittab respawn

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:41:48 +0000

dntel,

Using the ‘service asterisk start’ actually initiates safe_asterisk. Which I believe is a process that does the same thing as inittab. It watches asterisk and respawns the asterisk process if it crashes.

Using the service command is easier to manage.

Josh

By: dntel

dntel — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:10:39 +0000

And what if asterisk crashes when you are out of office? Inittab is a good tip for starting asterisk and prevent it from stop working.

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:23:22 +0000

ssaud,

You are right. The init script in the asterisk source directory is now the correct way to do this. Thanks for the ‘asterisk config’ tip.

Josh

By: ssaud

ssaud — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:15:17 +0000

This is good to learn but why don’t you use Asterisk built-in init script? Well simple run this command “asterisk config” in the asterisk source directory and you are done. Now you can do “service asterisk stop/start” etc

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:22:25 +0000

@LR – You are right. Thank you.

Josh

By: LR

LR — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:25:52 +0000

Better to use safe_asterisk instead of this method, because it allows you to stop asterisk easily and also core dumps will be available without any further settings.

HTH