asterisk users - Jul 2005 - Proper way to start * and load modules on a RedHatbox

Hi,

after you have done "make", "make install" and maybe
"make samples" in
asterisk source-dir just do a "make config" and all will be done for
you.

to check if it worked, simply issue "chkconfig --list asterisk" to see
the
runlevels asterisk is started or not.

to start zaptel drivers do the same after "make install" ("make
config"),
and then edit the file "/etc/sysconfig/zaptel" for your needs, which
means
comment out all the modules you don't want to load and uncomment all
modules you want to load.

afterwards you should start zaptel and asterisk as follows:

# service zaptel start
# service asterisk start

during bootup process all is started fine.

i experienced that on some configs the "service asterisk restart" does
not work correctly, so go to "/etc/rc.d/init.d" and edit the file
"asterisk"
and insert a "sleep 5" between stop and start in "restart".

hope this helps!

regards,
roland

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Remco
Barende
Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 9:06 PM
To: Asterisk Users List
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Proper way to start * and load modules on a
RedHatbox

Hi list!

I have several boxes running asterisk as I want, no problems there but
the 
one thing I haven't sorted out is how to properly start asterisk on boot

time.

This is probably a n00b class question but how do I properly set this up

(I didn't find any docs on this).

The zaptel script alone does not load the proper driver on boot time, I 
guess I need to do some thing with the alias stuff in modules.conf?

Also how can I make the startup scripts appear in ntsysv? Even when I
copy 
the scripts to rc.d they do not show up in ntsysv

I tried loading the modules manually from rc.local but that doesn't
work, 
even if I use delays. For some reason ztcfg doesn't work when run from 
rc.local and therefore asterisk fails to load. If I run ztcfg manually 
then ztcfg starts properly.

Thanks for any hints / tips!
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On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 09:55:46PM +0200, Roland Zagler wrote:
> i experienced that on some configs the "service asterisk restart"
does
> not work correctly, so go to "/etc/rc.d/init.d" and edit the file
> "asterisk"
> and insert a "sleep 5" between stop and start in
"restart".
Why is that?

'restart' on debian is simply:

  $0 stop
  $0 start

'stop' has some logic to stop asterisk: first asterisk -rx 'stop
now' in
the background, so it won't hang, after two seconds sigterm to the
asterisk processes and after 5 sends sigkill. Seems to work well.

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