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

[Justin Fletcher]

On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 16:52 +0000, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 

It might be A reason, but it certainly isn't a GOOD one.

A GOOD system would be to set up proper disk monitoring, log rotation,
purging/archiving, etc.

Using the crashing of applications to notify you when a disk is full is
NOT good.

There might be a good reason to run Asterisk as root, but this isn't it.

-Justin