Mark Coccimiglio wrote: > Tzafrir; > Actually I have found this config to work really well. I prefer to > use a script run from inittab but Ubuntu doesn't work like Redhat or > BSD. On a production box keeping asterisk up and running is "THE TOP" > priority. If you would rather check every five minutes then replace the > first "*" with "*/5". I will address your points as it seems that you > haven't really thought about this. > > 1) In a production environment you should NOT be messing with the > config. That's what test hardware is for. > > 2) The answer to this question is: "crontab -e" its really not that > hard. I'm not running asterisk every minute. I'm looking to see if > asterisk is running and then act accordingly > > 3) If asterisk fails believe me a full mailbox is the least of my > worries. As for full logs I'd rather have more information...."grep & > awk" are your friends. > > I prefer to keep things as simple as possible. Sure scripts like > "safe_asterisk" are nice and do some > really neat things but lets face it how often do you actually sit at the > console of your asterisk box. My > main PBX is located about 7 feet from my office desk and I still mostly > use ssh (not even telnet) to get > into the box.
at least on ubuntu 6.10 safe_asterisk requires one simple fix, not really a headbreaker (something with output redirection). You could actually edit the script to not start a console if you dont' want it to (say for security reasons). If you wanted to start asterisk and keep monitoring it, that is what init is for. I don't know about ubuntu startup, but traditional sysV init would simply restart a process if it ever quits (respawn). My bet is that startup can do the same somehow, this is a far better way to keep * up.... -- Remco Post "I didn't write all this code, and I can't even pretend that all of it makes sense." -- Glen Hattrup _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users