[Asterisk-Dev] Multi asterisk installation

[Michael Bielicki]

What we do quite a lot is to use linux vservers,
www.linux-vserver.org, or if your laze
www.freevps.com and run one vserver per asterisk :)


On 5/3/05, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 04:30:07PM +0200, Marcin Pietrzyk wrote:
> >
> > On 03/05/2005 at 13:18 Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> >
> > >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.
> >
> > Ok. right i will test this solution, and report is it working. Have
> > anyone tried this ? Or tried to :-)
> >
> > 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 ?
> 
> You can use a single asterisk binary, modules (and agi directory, if you
> so wish).
> 
> 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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Michal Bielicki
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