[VoIP] Asterisk start on boot with Debian Linux

[Greg Blakely]

I also have my asterisk start at boot-up (Fedora), but I do it through
/etc/inittab.

That way, if it dies, it will restart.

Here's what it looks like, a line by itself, all the way at the bottom
of the file:

# Start Asterisk
ax:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/asterisk -cq


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: voip-bounces at ckts.info [mailto:voip-bounces at ckts.info] 
> On Behalf Of Donald Froula
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 11:48 AM
> To: voip at ckts.info
> Subject: [VoIP] Asterisk start on boot with Debian Linux
> 
> I figured out how to run Asterisk at boot up, but only after 
> lots of false starts.
> 
> Debian requires a startup script to be placed in the 
> directory /etc/init.d. The Asterisk source distribution comes 
> with a working script in the "contrib/init.d" sub-directory, 
> called rc.debian.asterisk. I copied this to /etc/init.d and 
> edited it to modprobe my zaptel drivers and run ztcfg to 
> bring up the interfaces.
> 
> Debian then requires you to run the command "update-rc.d" to 
> set up the rules for running the script in the various run levels.
> 
> I used the following command:
> 
> "update-rc.d rc.debian.asterisk start 99 2 3 4 5 . 1 0
> 1 6 ."
> 
> This sets up the script to run Asterisk as the last process 
> when booting in runlevels 2 3 4 and 5, the normal run levels. 
> It also tells Debian to kill off Asterisk the first thing 
> when switching to runlevels 0, 1 and 6. 0 and 6 are for 
> system halt and shutdown.
> Level 1 is single-user "safe" mode.
> 
> The problem I had was that I had been running Asterisk in 
> single-user "safe" mode. I did this to avoid launching the 
> GUI when booting up. This will never work, as Debian kills 
> all daemons in single-user, runlevel 1.
> 
> To set things right, I entered the following command to 
> inhibit running the GUI at boot in the normal run levels.
> 
> "update-rc.d -f GDM remove"
> 
> I then changed the /boot/grub/menu.lst to default back to 
> normal mode at boot (I had the order of the menu items 
> swapped to default to single-user mode).
> 
> Now, Asterisk starts up as a daemon at boot time. If your 
> BIOS supports reboot on power-failure, it makes a very robust setup.
> 
> Note that this is all specific to Debian Linux.
> 
> Hope this helps someone.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Don
> 
> 
> --- Donald Froula <dfroula at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> > I'm still trying to figure how to load all the zaptel 
> drivers, start 
> > zaptel, and start asterisk at boot.
> > I've played with adding a shell script in /etc/init.d, with 
> a softlink 
> > from /etc/rc1.d, but can't get this to work. Any ideas?
> > 
> >
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