[VoIP] Asterisk Startup

[windmill]

Perhaps, but I'm not so sure that would have worked on some of my *boxes 
as they had a nasty habit of not recognising X100P cards on a cold boot 
following e.g. a power outage and then Asterisk would usually fail.

Quite honestly without a decent UPS and some automatic method of 
rebooting a PC after a power outage I can't see a use for an automatic 
Asterisk start on boot unless X100P cards have been confirmed to have 
been configured and I don't know how to do that automatically. I presume 
a script of some sort would be required to check the output of ztcfg 
before attempting to run Asterisk. I do have zaptel loaded 
automatically, I have always done that although in the beginning I 
didn't realise that I had!

If Asterisk is started at boot using 'make config' will it run with the 
-c option or not? One of the things I really like about Linux is the 
colour coded directories etc and the Asterisk CLI in colour is 
particularly useful especially when I am running verbosity 4 or higher.

Brian

gijones at clear.net.nz wrote:
> There is always a better way.
>
> In the Zaptel source directory where you did the make , "make install" etc 
> if you do "make config" this will install the necessary startup files for 
> the Zaptel hardware.
> Then do the same in the Asterisk directory,  "make config" and this will set 
> the Asterisk to be loaded everytime you start / restart the PC.
>
> Then all you need do is login then  type "asterisk -vvvr" in a terminal 
> window and that will connect you to the console.  At the end of the session 
> at the CLI prompt just type "exit" that will drop you out of the CLI console 
> but Asterisk will still be running.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Brent
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Richard Lane" <richardlane at exemail.com.au>
> To: "Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches" <voip at ckts.info>
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 12:12 AM
> Subject: [VoIP] Asterisk Startup
>
>
>   
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have a technical question.
>>
>> How do I make asterisk load on startup. At the moment I need to logon to
>> the box and run asterisk -vvvvc
>>
>> There must be a better way.
>>
>> Richard