[asterisk-users] Unable to open pid file '/var/run/asterisk/asterisk.pid': No such file or directory

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 08:45:05AM +1300, Duncan Turnbull wrote:
> The other way on Debian/Ubuntu is just to test the existence of the dir and create it if needed
> 
> If you add this to the /etc/init.d/asterisk near the start you should be fine
> 
> if ! [ -d /var/run/asterisk ] ; then
>         mkdir /var/run/asterisk
>         chown $AST_USER.$AST_GROUP /var/run/asterisk

Please use ':' as a separator for chown.

chown $user: file   # (empty group) chowns the file to the default group
of the uiser, which means that it's safe to leave AST_GROUP set to an
empty value.

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