[asterisk-users] A reason TO run Asterisk as root

Danny Nicholas danny at debsinc.com
Wed Jul 22 12:31:59 CDT 2009


Yeah, and GOTO's are a good reason not to use COBOL.  But they both still
LIVE!! (Wah ha ha ha!!!)

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Kempgen
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 12:25 PM
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Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] A reason TO run Asterisk as root

Jeff LaCoursiere schrieb:
>> 2009/7/22 Steve Edwards <asterisk.org at sedwards.com>
>>
>>> I finally found a reason TO run Asterisk as root.
>>>
>>> By default, ext[23] file systems "reserve" 5% of the filesystem for
root.

> So to rephrase it:
> 
> One GOOD reason to run asterisk as root is that you get to take advantage 
> of the default filesystem overflow space reserved for root.

That could just as well be a reason NOT to run Asterisk as root. :-)


    Philipp Kempgen
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