If you run make config in the Asterisk or Zaptel source directories, then the initialization scripts used to control Asterisk or Zaptel will be copied to /etc/rc.d/init.d/. The scripts can be used to easily load and unload Asterisk and Zaptel. They will also run the chkconfig command for you so Asterisk and Zaptel will be started automatically upon system boot. The following shows their usage:

# service zaptel start
# service asterisk start

Each initialization script has several options that can be utilized to control the PBX or the drivers. Tables 3.2 and 3.3 show the commands run by the script as if you had typed them into the command-line interface (CLI) yourself: