From 8f8d190b460378f5546ddf9ac25ed5ea1a69ca20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Kevin P. Fleming" Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 19:04:49 +0000 Subject: add man pages for autosupport and safe_asterisk scripts (bug #4642) git-svn-id: https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk@6026 65c4cc65-6c06-0410-ace0-fbb531ad65f3 --- contrib/scripts/autosupport.8 | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ contrib/scripts/safe_asterisk.8 | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 103 insertions(+) create mode 100755 contrib/scripts/autosupport.8 create mode 100755 contrib/scripts/safe_asterisk.8 (limited to 'contrib') diff --git a/contrib/scripts/autosupport.8 b/contrib/scripts/autosupport.8 new file mode 100755 index 000000000..e356fcdbb --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/scripts/autosupport.8 @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +.TH AUTOSUPPORT 8 "Jul 5th, 2005" "Asterisk" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +.B autosupport +\(em interactive script to provide Digium[tm]'s support with information +.SH SYNOPSIS +.PP +.B autosupport + +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B autoasupport +is a script that is normally run by a user contacting Digium's support +to automate gathering support information. + +It will probe the system for some configuration and run-time information, +and will also prompt the user for some optional access information (IP +address, login and password). + +The information is written to /root/digiuminfo which the user is expected +to attach to a support ticket to Digium. + +The script must be run as root as it reads Asterisk's configuration and +the disk information using hdparm(8). + +.SH FILES +.B /root/digiuminfo +.RS +The output of the script goes there +.RE + +.SH SEE ALSO +asterisk(8) + +.SH "AUTHOR" +autosupport was written by John Bigelow . +This manual page was written by Tzafrir Cohen +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. diff --git a/contrib/scripts/safe_asterisk.8 b/contrib/scripts/safe_asterisk.8 new file mode 100755 index 000000000..277fa5f8d --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/scripts/safe_asterisk.8 @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +.TH SAFE_ASTERISK 8 "Jun 30th, 2005" "Asterisk" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +.B safe_asterisk +\(em A wrapper to run the asterisk executable in a loop +.SH SYNOPSIS +.PP +.B safe_asterisk +.I [ asterisk_params ] + +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B 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 + +.SH FILES +.B /tmp +.RS +safe_asterisk runs in that directory, rather than in / as usual. +.RE + +.B /tmp/core +.RS +If core files were generated there, they may be +.RE + +.SH 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. + +.SH SEE ALSO +asterisk(8), screendump(9) + +.SH "AUTHOR" +This manual page was written by Tzafrir Cohen +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. -- cgit v1.2.3