[asterisk-users] a problem on Ubuntu with Asterisk

[Scott Berry]

Have a nice day,
Scott Berry
E-mail:  N7zib at northlc.com    

I  am studying out of the book Asterisk:  The Future of Telephony  on
Chapter 4,   and right now for practicing using the built in Debian
version of Asterisk for Ubuntu.  I am however having some problem where
I cannot do "asterisk -r" and hook up to the asterisk CLI.  I have
checked to see that "/var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl" is available which
it is.  I have also set up the zaptel.conf, zapata.conf and also the
extensions.conf as specified in the book.  The error I get is:

"Unable to connect to asterisk remote
(does /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl exist?"  Yes it certainly does.
Any help would be appreciated.  if need be i would be happy to send my
extensions.conf, zaptel.conf, and zapata.conf to the lisOne other
question I think I am correct on this but not sure does zaptel.conf and
zapata.conf go in to "/etc?"

Thanks for all the help.