[asterisk-users] asterisk at non-root / zaptel

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com
Tue Oct 16 18:38:57 CDT 2007


On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 01:57:26PM -0700, Robert McNaught wrote:
> Alan,
> 
> What do you mean by the udev rules?
> 
> I previously had asterisk compiled and running as user and group
> 'asterisk'
> 
> zaptel and libpri were compiled and installed using user 'root'
> 
> so the zaptel service was root.  I had a dependency issue with asterisk
> trying to access a file owned by root for zaptel to work.  How is yours
> configured?
> 
> Should I be trying to compile and install libpri and zaptel as user
> 'asterisk' - I tried this but would not compile as dependency problems
> with files being owned as root.  Do you know if there is options in the
> make command to put when you compile libpri and zaptel as user
> 'asterisk' - maybe that would get round it?

We're talking about the permissions of files under /dev/zap . In most
systems a manual chmod / chown of them won't help as they are created at
zaptel device generation time by udev.

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