[asterisk-users] ASTSBINDIR not being picked up by safe_asterisk

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Monday 25 January 2010 08:52:45 Mark Hulber wrote:
> Recently safe_asterisk is failing to pick up ASTSBINDIR.  I've never had
> this problem before and even when I move to back versions I have the
> issue.  I did upgrade safe_asterisk and the init.d scripts a version or
> so ago but even when I try older ones I still have the problem. When I
> hard code the location things seem to work.  The problem that occurs is:
>
> cat: __ASTERISK_VARRUN_DIR__/asterisk.pid: No such file or directory
> Automatically restarting Asterisk.
>
> But I think this is just a side effect of not finding asterisk in the
> /usr/sbin directory in the first place.
>
> Anyone run across this or have an idea what might have happened?  I
> don't know if it was a Redhat update issue or some change in my
> configuration or what.
>
> When I make the following change in safe_asterisk it works ok:
>
> ASTSBINDIR=__ASTERISK_SBIN_DIR__
> ASTSBINDIR=/usr/sbin

Sounds like you manually copied the safe_asterisk script to /usr/sbin, instead
of relying on 'make install' to do it for you.  The install target does some
extra processing of the script for you.

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Tilghman