[asterisk-users] /dev/zap/channel ownership

[Giorgio Incantalupo]

Hi Mitch,
I have same problem....sometime I get that error in particular when I 
modprobe module as root to fix asterisk wrong configurations but not 
when rebooting. To be sure I chown /dev/zap inside my 
/etc/init.d/asterisk launch script after modprobe-ing zaptel and wctdm.


Giorgio Incantalupo

 

Mitch Miller wrote:
> * is having permission problems accessing /dev/zap/channel.  When I 
> look, these devices (everything in /dev/zap) shows root.root for uid 
> and gid.  If I start Asterisk from the command line, it runs fine 
> (running as Root).  When I start it as a service, I get
>
> Oct 19 23:02:55 WARNING[10587] chan_iax2.c: Unable to open IAX timing 
> interface: Permission denied
> Oct 19 23:02:55 WARNING[10587] chan_zap.c: Unable to open 
> '/dev/zap/channel': Permission denied
> Oct 19 23:02:55 ERROR[10587] chan_zap.c: Unable to open channel 1: 
> Permission denied
>
> So ... I changed ownership on /dev/zap/* to asterisk.asterisk and now 
> everything seems to be running fine.
>
> My question is ... how would the ownership on these devices have 
> changed?  (I've not yet rebooted, but I'm suspicious that they'll 
> revert back to root.root).
>
> -- Mitch
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