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

[Brian]

On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 19:20 +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

> Adding documentation is what you do when things fail to work. I suspect
> you use an older init.d script.
> 
You are just being silly now. Good documentation is essential to
everything.

With regards to your comments about the init.d script, it was provided
with 1.6.1 as an extra and worked out of the box. The change is with
1.6.2 where it no longer works out of the box. To me that is not
intended operation - or a change which should be documented.

I don't agree with you as what you are saying has no legs - the fix is
simple insofar as removing '(!)' from asterisk.conf, but it's a bit
sloppy to expect a directory to stay persistent where it may well not be
the case. Even by your own metric this would make 'things fail to work'
and by your own suggestion the fix for that is to document the issue?

Have a pleasant weekend.