[Asterisk-Users] Running Asterisk as non-root

[Douglas Garstang]

If you run Asterisk as non root, you may have problems installing G729 licenses. The digium registration utility has certain hard coded stuff, and doesn't behave well when things aren't installed in the standard location.

Doug.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luki [mailto:lugosoft at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 4:53 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Running Asterisk as non-root
> 
> 
> > I saw where one should not run Asterisk as root:
> > How important is this?
> 
> It's probably not very important at the moment, however, it's not that
> hard to do either. I run Asterisk non-root and in a chrooted
> environment -- it keeps all necessary files nicely separated (easily
> portable, easy to switch versions), doesn't clog up common
> directories. Just make a new directory like /usr/local/asterisk and
> use that as the root for the chrooted environment. Chown all /var and
> /etc/asterisk files in there to the asterisk user and you're good to
> go. The tough part is to get all the shared libraries copies over --
> ldd is your friend.
> 
> --Luki
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