[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk as non root

[Fran Boon]

On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 14:03, Chris Lee wrote:
> I followed the wiki instructions: 
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+non-root

Glad someone's finding it useful :)

> Now I have a working asterisk running as user asterisk.
> I do however have some problems:
> 1: I dont have access via asterisk -r

root should have access using asterisk -r (does for me anyway)

> 2: The pid file is no longer being updated

If this is an upgrade to a previous install, then check
/etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf to see whether the change to ASTVARRUNDIR
has taken effect in the config file...

> 3: I want to create a file in init.d so that I can use service start and 
> stop, but need to be able to pass asterisk the gracefully command etc, 
> any ideas welcome. maybe: "asterisk -rx stop gracefully" etc

pass

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