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

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:28:53PM +0000, Brian wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 14:15 +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> {snip}
> > So the questions to ask are, I believe:
> > 
> > * Should asterisk here be run as root? If so: why?
> It suits me to run it that way on the device concerned.

Could you please be more specific?

> > * Where should the astvarrundir be?
> If you leave the defaults as they are (dictated by (!) in asterisk.conf)
> then the behaviour you get is Asterisk looking to /var/run/asterisk
> which the OS deletes on reboot. The question is why is this the default
> behaviour when it breaks systems that clear /var/run

Because we should make it simple to run Asterisk as non-root.

> 
> This was - btw - a compile from source, not packaged offering.

Right. But packagers have a way of running into platform-specific bugs.

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