diff -Nur asterisk-old/asterisk/contrib/init.d/rc.archlinux.asterisk asterisk/contrib/init.d/rc.archlinux.asterisk
--- asterisk-old/asterisk/contrib/init.d/rc.archlinux.asterisk	1970-01-01 02:00:00.000000000 +0200
+++ contrib/init.d/rc.archlinux.asterisk	2008-10-10 22:20:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Start/stop/restart Asterisk PBX
+#
+# Version: 0.1 by Sherif Nagy AKA DarKnesS_WolF <sherif.nagy@gmail.com> BASED ON THE SLACKWARE INIT SCRIPT
+#
+# 10.10.2008 - Initial Version
+#
+. /etc/rc.conf
+. /etc/rc.d/functions
+
+case "$1" in
+  start)
+  stat_busy "Starting Asterisk..."
+   if [ -x /usr/sbin/asterisk ]; then
+      # 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 [ "`echo $VERSION | cut -c 1-8`" = "Asterisk" ]; then
+         echo "Asterisk is already running.  $0 will exit now."
+         exit 1
+      fi
+      /usr/sbin/asterisk
+      stat_done
+   fi
+   ;;
+  stop)
+      if [ -r /var/run/asterisk.pid ]; then
+    stat_busy "Stoping Asterisk..."
+      asterisk -rx "stop now" > /dev/null 2&>1
+      	if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
+      	stat_fail
+    	else
+      	stat_done
+    	fi
+      fi
+    ;;
+  restart)
+    $0 stop
+     sleep 2
+    $0 start
+    ;;
+   *)
+      echo "usage $0 start|stop|restart" ;;
+esac
+exit 0
--- asterisk/Makefile	2008-09-08 22:19:29.000000000 +0200
+++ asterisk/Makefile	2008-10-10 21:02:38.000000000 +0200
@@ -765,6 +765,9 @@
 		elif [ -f /etc/SuSE-release -o -f /etc/novell-release ]; then \
 			$(INSTALL) -m 755 contrib/init.d/rc.suse.asterisk $(DESTDIR)/etc/init.d/asterisk; \
 			if [ -z "$(DESTDIR)" ]; then /sbin/chkconfig --add asterisk; fi; \
+		elif [ -f /etc/arch-release -o -f /etc/arch-release ]; then \
+			$(INSTALL) -m 755 contrib/init.d/rc.archlinux.asterisk $(DESTDIR)/etc/rc.d/asterisk; \
+			echo "Archlinux is not currently supported, although an init script does exits for it. please add asterisk to your DAEMONS line in /etc/rc.conf to start it when computer boots."; \
 		elif [ -f /etc/slackware-version ]; then \
 			echo "Slackware is not currently supported, although an init script does exist for it." \
 		else \