[Asterisk-Dev] Multi asterisk installation

[Danny Froberg]

Anything to watch out for when doing this?

/Danny

On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 19:36 +0200, Michael Bielicki wrote:
> 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.
> > 
> > --
> > Tzafrir Cohen     icq#16849755  +972-50-7952406
> > tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com  http://www.xorcom.com
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