Asterisk options

Starting Asterisk

• -c: Console mode. Don’t go into background mode, stay in foreground with a command line interface (implies -f)
• -C <filename>: Start Asterisk with a specified configuration file
• -d: Debug mode
• -f: Stay in foreground mode
• -g: Dump core in case of a crash
• -h: Help (list all command line options).
• -i: Initializie crypto keys at startup
• -p: Run as pseudo-realtime thread
• -q: Quiet mode
• -v: The verbose command. Add more ‘v’:s to get more messages.

Connecting to a running Asterisk

• -r:Connect to Asterisk running in the background and present a Asterisk CLI
• -R:Same as -r, but will automatically reconnect to the daemon (or at least retry) if the daemon restarts
• -x:In combination with -r, execute an Asterisk CLI
• -n:Disable ANSI colour support

Examples

• asterisk -vvvvvvdr:Start a very chatty Asterisk command line interface and connect to asterisk running in the background
• asterisk -vvvvvvc:Start Asterisk PBX, don’t go background
• asterisk -rx reload:Connect to a running Asterisk, force reload of configuration with the CLI command “reload”

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