[Asterisk-Users] Ubuntu Migration

[snacktime]

On 5/17/05, Matthew Walster <matthew at walster.org> wrote:
> I've just migrated Asterisk from my old Gentoo system to an Ubuntu system,
> copied across all the /etc/asterisk files and now it fails to work. After
> brief looks, I find that it can't access:
> 
> /var/log/asterisk/messages
> /var/run/asterisk.ctl
> /var/run/asterisk.pid
> 
> So I touched these files, and chown/chgrp'd then to user/group
> asterisk/asterisk. Now, when I run asterisk through /etc/init.d/asterisk
> (Ubuntu is a Debianalike) it says "Unable to set high priority".

Debian has it's own way of installing asterisk.  You should probably
install asterisk again, then copy over only the files you need from
your gentoo box instead of copying the whole directory over.

Or you can install from source which is the best way IMO.

Chris