NAME

       safe_asterisk — A wrapper to run the asterisk executable in a loop

SYNOPSIS

       safe_asterisk [ asterisk_params ]

DESCRIPTION

       safe_asterisk  is  a  script  that  runs asterisk in a loop, which can be useful if you fear asterisk may
       crash.

       The script does not run in the background like a standard service. Rather,  it  runs  in  its  own  linux
       virtual console (9, by default).  It also uses the option '-c' of asterisk(8) to avoid detaching asterisk
       from that terminal.

       safe_asterisk also runs asterisk with unlimited core file size, and thus asterisk will dump core in  case
       of a crash.

       To get a "picture" of console 9, from another terminal (e.g: from a remote shell session) you can use:

         screendump 9

       The  init script of the Debian package should be able to run safe_asterisk as the asterisk service, if so
       configured. See coments in /etc/default/asterisk

FILES

       /tmp
              safe_asterisk runs in that directory, rather than in / as usual.

       /tmp/core
              If core files were generated there, they may be

       /etc/asterisk/startup.d
              Files in this directory will be 'source'd by the safe_asterisk script before  it  starts  Asterisk
              proper,  allowing  them  to  set  additional environment variables or run any other steps that are
              needed for your system.

BUGS

       While showing the output on a console is useful, using screen(1) as the terminal may be better.

       The script does not read configuration from standard location under /etc

       It uses fixed locations under /tmp , and thus may be exposed to a symlink attacks.

SEE ALSO

       asterisk(8), screendump(9)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com> Permission is granted  to  copy,
       distribute  and/or  modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any
       later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On  Debian  systems,  the  complete  text  of  the  GNU  General  Public  License   can   be   found   in
       /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.