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- .TH SAFE_ASTERISK 8 "Jun 30th, 2005" "Asterisk" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
- .SH NAME
- .B safe_asterisk
- \(em A wrapper to run the asterisk executable in a loop
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .PP
- .B safe_asterisk
- .I [ asterisk_params ]
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .B 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
- .SH FILES
- .B /tmp
- .RS
- safe_asterisk runs in that directory, rather than in / as usual.
- .RE
- .B /tmp/core
- .RS
- If core files were generated there, they may be
- .RE
- .B /etc/asterisk/startup.d
- .RS
- 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.
- .RE
- .SH 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.
- .SH SEE ALSO
- asterisk(8), screendump(9)
- .SH "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.
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