Neil,
I misread your message last night.
I just tested service asterisk restart on DIAL x86 restarts a dead asterisk. See below.

root@repeater:/etc/init.d# ps ax | grep asterisk
 1081 ?        Ssl    0:01 /usr/sbin/asterisk
 1117 pts/0    S+     0:00 grep asterisk

root@repeater:/etc/init.d# kill -9 1081

root@repeater:/etc/init.d# ps ax | grep asterisk
 1125 pts/0    S+     0:00 grep asterisk

root@repeater:/etc/init.d# asterisk -r
Asterisk 1519, Copyright (C) 1999 - 2008 Digium, Inc. and others.
Created by Mark Spencer <markster@digium.com>
Asterisk comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type 'core show warranty' for details.
This is free software, with components licensed under the GNU General Public
License version 2 and other licenses; you are welcome to redistribute it under
certain conditions. Type 'core show license' for details.
=========================================================================
Unable to connect to remote asterisk (does /var/run/asterisk.ctl exist?)

root@repeater:/etc/init.d# service asterisk restart

root@repeater:/etc/init.d# ps ax | grep asterisk
 1143 ?        Ssl    0:00 /usr/sbin/asterisk
 1171 pts/0    S+     0:00 grep asterisk

root@repeater:/etc/init.d# asterisk -r
Asterisk 1519, Copyright (C) 1999 - 2008 Digium, Inc. and others.
Created by Mark Spencer <markster@digium.com>
Asterisk comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type 'core show warranty' for details.
This is free software, with components licensed under the GNU General Public
License version 2 and other licenses; you are welcome to redistribute it under
certain conditions. Type 'core show license' for details.
=========================================================================
Connected to Asterisk 1519 currently running on repeater (pid = 1143)
repeater*CLI>

73, Steve N4IRS

On 12/12/2015 12:44 AM, Neil k8it wrote:
Steve
 
I have been evaluating Dial on a Linux PC
Observations
1. When asterisk crashes, there is no restart or watchdog
 
2.this makes debugging very difficult
3.asterisk service mode restart does not seem to work
4. in this mode remote SSH to restart is not possible
Do you have any fixes planned?
 
 
Thanks
73 Neil Sablatzky  K8IT
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