Question

I want to write a shell script that can reload asterisk every 3 minutes. How to do this and what reload should I use? reload / reload sip or logger rotate? I am adding sip clients in sip.conf and I am also changing the extensions.conf. I would like to specify that I don’t want to interrupt the calls (if there are between other sip clients) while I am reloading asterisk.

I am working in Ubuntu server.

Answer 1

# /usr/sbin/asterisk -h

Asterisk help gives:

-x "<CLI command>"

Execute an arbitrary CLI command. Using this command in combination
with -r allows you to execute a CLI command without having to connect
to the CLI and type it manually. An example would be to send a
restart, which you would do by typing asterisk -rx “reload” from the
command line.

You probably want to use asterisk -rx "reload when convenient" to reload the configuration when there isn’t any call volume.