[C++] Run in background when Ctrl+C entered

TomGibbons · 08-25-2006, 03:19 PM

I'm not sure how many of you have used the Asterisk PBX but what I'd like to do is have my application run in the background, instead of closing, when Ctrl+C is pressed. Asterisk does this and you then run 'asterisk -r' to connect to it again.

Any ideas how I could do this?

Thank you

acid_kewpie · 08-25-2006, 03:23 PM

do you just mean how do you background a process? Ctrl+z then run "bg".

TomGibbons · 08-25-2006, 04:16 PM

No I already know how to run a process in the background. It's a similar thing to that, however, in Asterisk I simply hit Ctrl+C and it runs in the background. I reconnect to the running PBX by passing an R argument.

dopehouse · 08-26-2006, 06:02 AM

Asterisk is already running in the background. if you start asterisk with asterisk -r, you only use the new asterisk process as an terminal client to connect to the asterisk process which is running in server mode. if you hit ctrl+c, you just kill the client which communicates via IPC with the asterisk server.

TomGibbons · 08-26-2006, 08:51 AM

Thank you. That's what I needed to know.