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

[John covici]

on Wednesday 07/22/2009 Gordon Henderson(gordon+asterisk at drogon.net) wrote
 > On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Jonathan Moore wrote:
 > 
 > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Steve
 > > Edwards<asterisk.org at sedwards.com> wrote:
 > >> I finally found a reason TO run Asterisk as root.
 > >>
 > >> By default, ext[23] file systems "reserve" 5% of the filesystem for root.
 > >>
 > >> Thus, you may get some warning when everything non-root starts failing
 > >> and give you a chance to free up some space before Asterisk is affected.
 > >
 > > Couldn't you get the same effect using quotas?  Also, using separate
 > > partitions for various parts of the filesystem is a nice addition.  Having
 > > your /var/log somewhere besides the same partition as / helps keep
 > > runaway logs at bay, just as an example.
 > 
 > This is real sysadmin territory.... And it's a dying art, I fear. Too many 
 > people just creating one big partition, doing stupid (IMO) tricks like 
 > "tune2fs -m 0 ... " and so on.
 > 
 > It's something you can't/won't ever learn from just doing a modern Linux 
 > install, or (worse, I reckon), installing something like pbxinaflash, etc. 
 > although to their credit, most of these pre-canned installs do seem to 
 > work well. Until they break. Then you need a sysadmin...
 > 

I do agree, but I do change the reserved blocks to 0, otherwise even
as root the DF numbers are wrong and I have a number of partitions,
even one for /tmp, so I figure its not so bad.

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