[asterisk-users] Centos 6.5 Asterisk 1.8.11.0 - starts in rc.local, but not contactible?

[jg]

> Hmm ok - I made sure to run
>
> make config
>
> in the Asterisk source folder which installed the correct scripts into rc.d
> and so forth.
>
> I then did
>
> chkconfig asterisk on
>
> and rebooted the box.
>
> The parameters remain the same, asterisk is there if you do a ps -aux | grep
> asterisk but it still is in a non-working state and not contacible via
> asterisk -r.
>
> Since it is an old box and the reason for trying to get it going is mostly
> academic, I think I'm just going to dump the box and reformat it with Centos
> 7.
>
> Strange though, I have installed about 17 other boxes exactly this way on
> broadly the same hardware and all are currently running fine with Centos 6.5
> and Asterisk 1.8.11.0
>
> Thanks anyway, the problem is clearly deeper than I though since even the
> "official" way you detail above fails to start Asterisk as an account that
> can start it on system boot.
>
> Even when root is the only account on the machine - which leads me to
> believe I have some basic error in my Centos 6.5 installation so I'll just
> try it again or try Centos 7.
>
>
>
Okey-dokey. What happens when you start asterisk with "asterisk -c" from a root account?

jg