---
name: "safe_asterisk"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "asterisk"
version: "1:16.28.0~dfsg-0+deb11u4"
release: "Debian 11 (Bullseye)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/safe_asterisk"
---

# safe\_asterisk(8)

A wrapper to run the asterisk executable in a loop

## NAME

**safe\_asterisk** — A wrapper to run the asterisk executable in a loop

## SYNOPSIS

**safe\_asterisk** *\[ asterisk\_params \]*

## DESCRIPTION

**safe\_asterisk** is a script that runs asterisk in a loop, which can be useful if you fear asterisk may crash.

The script does not run in the background like a standard service. Rather, it runs in its own linux virtual console (9, by default). It also uses the option '-c' of [asterisk(8)](/asterisk/8.md) to avoid detaching asterisk from that terminal.

safe\_asterisk also runs asterisk with unlimited core file size, and thus asterisk will dump core in case of a crash.

To get a "picture" of console 9, from another terminal (e.g: from a remote shell session) you can use:

  screendump 9

The init script of the Debian package should be able to run safe\_asterisk as the asterisk service, if so configured. See comments in /etc/default/asterisk

## FILES

**/tmp**

safe\_asterisk runs in that directory, rather than in / as usual.

**/tmp/core**

If core files were generated there, they may be

**/etc/asterisk/startup.d**

Files in this directory will be 'source'd by the safe\_asterisk script before it starts Asterisk proper, allowing them to set additional environment variables or run any other steps that are needed for your system.

## BUGS

While showing the output on a console is useful, using [screen(1)](/screen/1.md) as the terminal may be better.

The script does not read configuration from standard location under /etc

It uses fixed locations under /tmp , and thus may be exposed to a symlink attacks.

## SEE ALSO

[asterisk(8)](/asterisk/8.md), screendump(9)

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Tzafrir Cohen \<tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com\> Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.