[Asterisk-Users] safe_asterisk with non-root user

Ryan Courtnage ryan at coalescentsystems.ca
Wed Mar 31 22:53:58 MST 2004


Turned out to be a dumb mistake on my part.

when su'ing to my non-root user, I was losing my PATH info.

safe_asterisk assumes /usr/sbin is in the PATH.

Cheers
Ryan

On 31-Mar-04, at 5:59 PM, Ryan Courtnage wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've found a couple of previous posts on this subject, but with no 
> posted resolution...
>
> I'm attempting to run * as a non-root user (asterisk), following the 
> guidelines on the wiki:
>
> 	http://voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk%20non-root
>
> I can run * as my new user with "/usr/sbin/asterisk -vvvvc" without 
> problem.
>
> However, I'm unable to run * using safe_asterisk with my new user:
>
> 	Asterisk ended with exit status 127
> 	Asterisk died with code 127.  Aborting.
>
> safe_asterisk is trying to use tty9 and I have changed the ownership 
> appropriately:
>
> # ls -l /dev/tty9
> crw-rw-rw-    1 asterisk tty        4,   9 Mar 31 17:37 /dev/tty9
>
> Any idea about what is wrong?
>
> thx!
> Ryan
>
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