[Asterisk-Dev] Multi asterisk installation

[Steve Kann]

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

>On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 04:30:07PM +0200, Marcin Pietrzyk wrote:
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>>On 03/05/2005 at 13:18 Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
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>>>Just give each Asterisk instance its own directory.
>>>
>>>If you want to run it as non-root, you'd probably want to create the pid
>>>file and the socket in a separate subdirectory under /var/run . 
>>>
>>>Here is asterisk.conf from debian:
>>>
>>>[global]
>>>	astetcdir => /etc/asterisk
>>>	astmoddir => /usr/lib/asterisk/modules
>>>	astvarlibdir => /var/lib/asterisk
>>>	; in debian software lives under /usr 
>>>	astagidir => /usr/share/asterisk/agi-bin
>>>	astspooldir => /var/spool/asterisk
>>>	astrundir => /var/run/asterisk
>>>	astlogdir => /var/log/asterisk
>>>
>>>Replace each /asterisk$ in that file with a custom directory for your
>>>instance, owned by the user of that instance.
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>>>
>>Ok. right i will test this solution, and report is it working. Have 
>>anyone tried this ? Or tried to :-)
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>>But still even if its working this solution leads to having 2 
>>instalation of asterisk in different directories, any ideas of running 
>>two times the same asterisk with two different configs ?
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>You can use a single asterisk binary, modules (and agi directory, if you
>so wish). 
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>Run those asterisk instances as two different users, and not as root.
>Don't chmod 666 or 777.
>That way you'll immediately get permission errors about any problem, and
>you'll be sure that those two copies don't run over one-another's data.
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You can run lots of separate asterisk processes on a single box; with 
each restricted to it's own configs, it's own IP to bind to, etc. I do 
this all the time.

-SteveK