dont use a bashism way to check the $VERSION variable.

The rc/init.d scripts, and safe_asterisk work on normal sh now again.
Tested on:
OpenBSD 4.2 (me)
Debian etch (me)
Ubuntu Hardy (me and loloski)
FC9 (loloski)

(closes issue #12687)
Reported by: loloski
Patches:
      20080529-12687-safe_asterisk-fixversion.diff.txt uploaded by mvanbaak (license 7)
	  Tested by: loloski, mvanbaak


git-svn-id: https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/branches/1.4@119301 65c4cc65-6c06-0410-ace0-fbb531ad65f3

contrib/init.d/rc.debian.asterisk

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ case "$1" in
 	# Check if Asterisk is already running.  If it is, then bug out, because
 	# starting up Asterisk when Asterisk is already running is very bad.
 	VERSION=`${DAEMON} -rx 'core show version' || ${TRUE}`
-	if [ "${VERSION:0:8}" = "Asterisk" ]; then # otherwise "Unable t"
+	if [ "`echo $VERSION | cut -c 1-8`" = "Asterisk" ]; then
 		echo "Asterisk is already running.  $0 will exit now."
 		exit 1
 	fi

contrib/init.d/rc.gentoo.asterisk

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ start() {
 	# Check if Asterisk is already running.  If it is, then bug out, because
 	# starting safe_asterisk when Asterisk is running is very bad.
 	VERSION=`${ASTSBINDIR}/asterisk -rx 'core show version'`
-	if [ "${VERSION:0:8}" = "Asterisk" ]; then # otherwise "Unable t"
+	if [ "`echo $VERSION | cut -c 1-8`" = "Asterisk" ]; then
 		echo "Asterisk is already running.  $0 will exit now."
 		exit 1
 	fi

contrib/init.d/rc.mandrake.asterisk

@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ case "$1" in
 		# Check if Asterisk is already running.  If it is, then bug out, because
 		# starting Asterisk when Asterisk is already running is very bad.
 		VERSION=`${ASTSBINDIR}/asterisk -rx 'core show version'`
-		if [ "${VERSION:0:8}" = "Asterisk" ]; then # otherwise "Unable t"
+		if [ "`echo $VERSION | cut -c 1-8`" = "Asterisk" ]; then
 			echo "Asterisk is already running.  $0 will exit now."
 			exit 1
 		fi

contrib/init.d/rc.redhat.asterisk

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ start() {
 	# Check if Asterisk is already running.  If it is, then bug out, because
 	# starting safe_asterisk when Asterisk is running is very bad.
 	VERSION=`${AST_SBIN}/asterisk -rx 'core show version'`
-	if [ "${VERSION:0:8}" = "Asterisk" ]; then # otherwise "Unable t"
+	if [ "`echo $VERSION | cut -c 1-8`" = "Asterisk" ]; then
 		echo "Asterisk is already running."
 		exit 1
 	fi

contrib/init.d/rc.slackware.asterisk

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ asterisk_start() {
       # Check if Asterisk is already running.  If it is, then bug out, because
       # starting safe_asterisk when Asterisk is running is very bad.
       VERSION=`/usr/sbin/asterisk -rx 'core show version'`
-      if [ "${VERSION:0:8}" = "Asterisk" ]; then # otherwise "Unable t"
+	  if [ "`echo $VERSION | cut -c 1-8`" = "Asterisk" ]; then
          echo "Asterisk is already running.  $0 will exit now."
          exit 1
       fi

contrib/init.d/rc.suse.asterisk

@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ start() {
 	# Check if Asterisk is already running.  If it is, then bug out, because
 	# starting Asterisk when Asterisk is already running is very bad.
 	VERSION=`/usr/sbin/asterisk -rx 'core show version'`
-	if [ "${VERSION:0:8}" = "Asterisk" ]; then # otherwise "Unable t"
+	if [ "`echo $VERSION | cut -c 1-8`" = "Asterisk" ]; then
 		echo "Asterisk is already running.  $0 will exit now."
 		exit 1
 	fi

contrib/scripts/safe_asterisk

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/bin/sh
 # vim:textwidth=80:tabstop=4:shiftwidth=4:smartindent:autoindent
 
 CLIARGS="$*"				# Grab any args passed to safe_asterisk
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ PRIORITY=0
 # Check if Asterisk is already running.  If it is, then bug out, because
 # starting safe_asterisk when Asterisk is running is very bad.
 VERSION=`${ASTSBINDIR}/asterisk -rx 'core show version'`
-if [ "${VERSION:0:8}" = "Asterisk" ]; then # otherwise "Unable t"
+if [ "`echo $VERSION | cut -c 1-8`" = "Asterisk" ]; then
 	echo "Asterisk is already running.  $0 will exit now."
 	exit 1
 fi