astman(1) [debian man page]

ASTMAN(1)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							 ASTMAN(1)

NAME

       astman -- a client to asterisk's manager interface

SYNOPSIS

       astman hostname

DESCRIPTION

       astman This program is a full-screen (terminal) client for Asterisk's manager interface.

OPTIONS

       hostname

       The host name or IP address to connect to (TCP port 5038). If astman fails to connect it will exit immidiately.

USAGE

       If  astman  has	successfully  cunnected to the manager port it will prompt the user for a username and a secret (password) for the manager
       interface on the remote Asterisk manager interface. It will then be able to report existing channels (calls). You will then be able to  re-
       direct calls to or terminate them.

SEE ALSO

       asterisk(8)

       http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+astman

BUGS

       The hostname does not default to localhost.

       Impossible to use a port other than 5038.

       The username and password cannot be defined from the command-line.

       I mean, what's the point in a man page if the syntax is so simple?

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com> Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this docu-
       ment 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.

astman								  Jun 12th, 2005							 ASTMAN(1)

SAFE_ASTERISK(8)					     Linux Programmer's Manual						  SAFE_ASTERISK(8)

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) 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  coments	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 addi-
	      tional 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) 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), 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 docu-
       ment 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.

Asterisk							  Jun 30th, 2005						  SAFE_ASTERISK(8)