[Asterisk-Users] Permission issue with outgoing calling

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 02:07:32PM +1200, Cameron Beattie wrote:
> I have created a call file which has been moved into the outgoing 
> directory. However the log file displays the following message: Unable to 
> open /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/1.call: Permission denied, deleting
> 
> I have executed chmod 777 1.call on the file prior to moving it to the 
> outgoing directory but is there something else I need to do before the file 
> can be used by Asterisk?

It also needs to be the owner of the file (unless asterisk is root) so
it can utime() it. Also check asterisk has rwx permissions on the spool
directory and can read all the parent directories...

Hope this helps,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout
Ecomtel Pty Ltd