asterisk users - Mar 2006 - broken pipe, restart asterisk

hi

i'm running asterisk since 2 weeks and sometimes it crashes reporting
some "ouch ... broken pipe error"

i wolud like to write a script shell that check if asterisk is
correctly started and, if not, it restart it, can i do it?

how?

i'm using asterisk 1.2.4 on slackware 10.2

thanks