[asterisk-users] Unable to open master device '/dev/zap/ctl'

[Chris Bagnall]

Make sure asterisk is in the "dialout" group in /etc/passwd

The default gentoo ebuild of zaptel creates /dev/zap/* with group dialout, and if you're using the gentoo ebuild of asterisk, it'll run as asterisk:asterisk, so you need to make sure asterisk is a member of the dialout goup otherwise it'll never be able to access /dev/zap/*

FWIW, as a fellow Gentoo user, 2006.1 is a bit dated, and you'd be well worth updating to 2007.0 if you can spare the time - it'll save you a lot of messing around with gcc versions etc. later down the line.

Regards,

Chris
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