If you’re on the latest Fedora you’re probably using systemd for init and startup / control of background functions.

On CentOS7, to get Asterisk to start up with the system on boot I do the following as root:

# cd /etc/systemd/system

# vim asterisk.service

– In this file, then put

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[Unit]
Description=Asterisk After=network.target After=network-online.target After=startup.service After=mysql.service Wants=mysql.service

[Service]
Type=idle User=root Group=root ExecStart=/usr/sbin/asterisk -f ExecStop=/usr/sbin/asterisk -rx ‘core stop now’
ExecReload=/usr/sbin/asterisk -rx ‘core reload’
TimeoutSec=300

LimitCORE=infinity LimitNOFILE=16384
Restart=always RestartSec=5

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

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# systemctl enable asterisk.service

Now, on reboot, systemd should start up asterisk for you.

Hope this helps.

Stefan

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