asterisk users - May 2015 - FW: Strange and complete failure of Asterisk 1.8 - part 2

Hi guys

I just did a ps -Af | grep asterisk on the machine and got several screens
full of this:

root      6970  6946  0 13:10 ?        00:00:00 rasterisk rxcore show
channels verbose
root      6987  6948  0 13:10 ?        00:00:00 rasterisk rxcore show
channels verbose
root      7005  6985  0 13:10 ?        00:00:00 rasterisk rxcore show
channels verbose
root      7021  7003  0 13:10 ?        00:00:00 rasterisk rxcore show
channels verbose
root      7062  7053  0 13:11 ?        00:00:00 rasterisk rxcore show
channels verbose
root      7077  7058  0 13:11 ?        00:00:00 rasterisk rxcore show
channels verbose
root      7097  7060  0 13:11 ?        00:00:00 rasterisk rxcore show
channels verbose
root      7118  7093  0 13:12 ?        00:00:00 rasterisk rxcore show
channels verbose
root      7137  7095  0 13:12 ?        00:00:00 rasterisk rxcore show
channels verbose
root      7155  7135  0 13:12 ?        00:00:00 rasterisk rxcore show
channels verbose
root      7170  7152  0 13:12 ?        00:00:00 rasterisk rxcore show
channels verbose
root      7196  7186  0 13:13 ?        00:00:00 rasterisk rxcore show
channels verbose
 
I see that "rasterisk" is a symlink in /usr/sbin that points to
whatever is
at /usr/sbin/asterisk - and that /usr/sbin/asterisk is the normal asterisk
binary.

Trying to killall rasterisk or kill -9 a specific PID of rasterisk just
results in it being immediately respawned...

Same with killall asterisk or kill -9 the single running asterisk instance.
It immediate respawns. I have no scripts or facilities running which will
restart it.

Any ideas?