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

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Asterisk                                         Jun 30th, 2005                                 SAFE_ASTERISK(8)

       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.

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 comments in /etc/default/asterisk

/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.

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

asterisk(8), screendump(9)

safe_asterisk[asterisk_params]