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

[Mitch Miller]

Exactly what I was looking for.  Thanks for the info.  Going to go study 
now ...

-- Mitch



Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 11:08:09PM -0500, 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_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
> 
> 
> Please see README.udev of zaptel.
> 
> Basically, those files are generated by udev. You might as well tell
> udev to chown them to asterisk.asterisk (or root.dialout, the standard
> on Debian systems)
> 
> 
> The default permissions.rules file on Debian Etch now contains:
> 
> SUBSYSTEM=="zaptel",                            GROUP="dialout"
> 
> A more complete rule would be:
> 
> 
> But you may choose to use:
> 
> SUBSYSTEM=="zaptel", MODE="0660", USER="asterisk", GROUP="asterisk"
> 
> 
> BTW: that line is missing from the udev package in Debian Sarge, leading
> to a similar problem to the one described here once the uder decides to
> use udev.
>