Hello Geoff, Many thanks for the info. Will try that. Really apreciate it. I found out that when you install Asterisk you can type make config and it will copy startup scripts for you. All the best, Christian On 2007-09-11 at 10:27 Geoff Shang wrote: >Christian wrote: > >> Yes, I have installed the right packages. Did it from source. > >Oh! So you probably installed Asterisk 1.4.11 then. > >Ok. I've never run Asterisk 1.4.x but I would think you could do >something >like the following: > >1. Create /etc/init.d/asterisk with the following: > >#!/bin/sh ># Start Asterisk on boot >echo Starting Asterisk... >/usr/sbin/asterisk > >You may wish to pass one or more "-v" options to Asterisk if you wish to >be >able to get vurbose output. > >2. Save the file and make it executable: > >chmod a+x /etc/init.d/asterisk > >3. Test your script (not sure what would happen if Asterisk was already >running): > >/etc/init.d/asterisk > >4. Make a symlink from /etc/init.d/asterisk to the relevant runlevel >directory at the point at which you would like it to start. For example: > >ln -s /etc/init.d/asterisk /etc/rc2.d/S30asterisk > >(note the capital S in the above). > >Note that Ubuntu's Upstart emulates runlevel 2 by default so this is >probably the directory you should use. You will need to make sure that >Asterisk starts after all other services that it might depend on. > >You could of course make your script more complicated, accepting the >usual start/stop/restart/reload arguments typical of Debian startup >scripts. I guess you would use the -r and -x arguments to pass commands >to >an already running Asterisk. > >If you do this, you might also want to get the system to shut down >Asterisk >gracefully when you shut down/reboot. You'd want to send "stop now" to a >running Asterisk. You would then need to link it to an appropriate place >in /etc/rc0.d and /etc/rc6.d (0 is shutdown, 6 is reboot). Shutdown >symlinks have a K prefix for kill. > >Having automatically started your Asterisk, you can then connect to it >with: > >asterisk -r > >I know this could be more tidy. Perhaps someone running asterisk from >Debian or Ubuntu packages could share the shipped init script. > >Hope this is of some help. > >Geoff. > >_______________________________________________ >Blinux-list mailing list >Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list