Re: asterisk in console
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 02:01:08PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> I'm trying to experiment with asterisk and installed the debian
> packages. However, this apparently starts asterisk as a daemon and
> then won't allow me to run it from the console since it's already
> running. Even if I stop the daemon, I can only run it from console as
> root; if I try to start it with the -c option as a user I get
> complaints about unable to open pid file: permission denied; unable to
> bind socket to /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl: address already in use;
> unable to create event log: permission denied. What do I need to do
> to set this up so the user can run it in console, or am I going to
> have to go get the source and install it myself? I am blind and do
> need to run it from the console. thanks.
The asterisk daemon runs as the user "asterisk". This user isn't
allowed an interactive login (shell set to /bin/false). However, when
the daemon is running you can get an asterisk console by running:
asterisk -r
If you want to increase the verbosity of the console just add a few v's
to that command like so:
asterisk -vvvr
With the current configuration I've found that I need to request the
console as root, but that can be easily done using "sudo".
--
Jamin W. Collins
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and day to make you everybody else is to fight the hardest battle any
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