[Asterisk-Users] Re: Asterisk start/stop

[Steven]

change asterisk.conf:

mkdir /var/run/asterisk
chown it to your asterisk user.
change astrundir => /var/run to astrundir => /var/run/asterisk

My guess would be that you are running asterisk as a non-root user and that this user can not write to /var/run .
if so, the ctl and PID files are not created.


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"Tom Castleman" <freepbx at eclecticweb.net> wrote in message news:4430BAD4.6090001 at eclecticweb.net...
> Hi there,
>
> I have installed asterisk and freepbx on a Debian Sarge system.
> I followed the INSTALL doc and all is well apart from the starting and stopping of asterisk.
>
> I have linked /usr/sbin/amportal into rc2.d and all is well on initial startup, however when issuing an 'amportal stop' command as
> root I get "Unable to connect to remote asterisk (does /var/run/asterisk.ctl exist?)" when it attempts to stop asterisk. Then I
> run amportal start and it says it is already running (obviously if it never stopped). Also when attempting to access the asterisk
> console as root, 'asterisk -rvvvvv' for example, I get the same message. I su to the asterisk user and get the same message.
>
> On a probably unrelated note, if I attempt to start asterisk via '/etc/init.d/asterisk start' (how I had it setup before
> installing freepbx) it starts then stops, exiting error code 1 or something, then starts and stops and starts etc etc.
>
> I think maybe I must need to slightly refined permissions on starting and stopping asterisk and locations of things.
>
> If any one could offer any advice/help it would be most appreciated.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Tom Castleman.
>
>
>
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