From 4e7fcccbef3d70967c3a10a0cbe60c00c03068a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jon Bonilla <jbonilla@sipwise.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:58:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] You can be lsb compliant and kind to asterisk

Somehow looks like asterisk does not like a start
when it'sa already started. I never had any
issues but read about it. It's safe to check
status before running start.

Still need to work in asterisk restart upon
upgrades. And how to deal with monit for that.
---
 debian/asterisk.init | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/debian/asterisk.init b/debian/asterisk.init
index 78bc038..c9046ee 100755
--- a/debian/asterisk.init
+++ b/debian/asterisk.init
@@ -64,8 +64,17 @@ fi
 # Use the LSB standar functions for services management
 . /lib/lsb/init-functions
 
+
+status() {
+        status_of_proc  "$DAEMON" "$NAME" && return 0 || return $?
+}
+
 case "$1" in
   start)
+	if status > /dev/null; then
+                echo "$DESC is already running. Use restart."
+                exit 0
+        fi
 	log_begin_msg "Starting $DESC: $NAME"
         if [ $AST_USER ] ; then
                 ASTARGS="-U $AST_USER"
@@ -95,7 +104,8 @@ case "$1" in
 	# "restart|force-reload" starts Asterisk and returns 0 even if Asterisk was stopped (as LSB expects).
 	;;
   status)
-       status_of_proc "$DAEMON" "$NAME" && exit 0 || exit $?
+        status
+        exit $?
        ;;
   *)
 	N=/etc/init.d/$NAME