[asterisk-users] Asterisk instances on VPS

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 05:43:09PM -0300, Gustavo Alejandro Gonzalez wrote:
> Hi folks! 
> 
> I'm setting up a debian box with kernel 2.6 running virtual private 
> servers with a TE110P card, at this moment i have two instances of 
> vps running and i want to run asterisk on every one, 

I'm not sure how this is supposed to work.

Asterisk's chanzap and the kernel zaptel connect mainly via /dev/zap/ctl .

AFAIK only one instance of Asterisk can have this file open. That is:
if two instances open two such device files, who get messages relevant
to each span? 

> so, i have 
> installed all fine (documentation on http://www.telephreak.org/papers/vpa/). But my problem arises when i run asterisk. It seems that D-CHANNEL is owned by the first instance that run  and the other instance dies loading chan_zap and shows:
> 
> [chan_zap.so] => (Zapata Telephony w/PRI)
>   == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/zapata.conf': Found
>     -- Registered channel 17, PRI Signalling signalling
>     -- Registered channel 18, PRI Signalling signalling
>     -- Registered channel 19, PRI Signalling signalling
>     -- Registered channel 20, PRI Signalling signalling
>     -- Registered channel 21, PRI Signalling signalling
>     -- Registered channel 22, PRI Signalling signalling
>     -- Registered channel 23, PRI Signalling signalling
>     -- Registered channel 24, PRI Signalling signalling
>     -- Registered channel 25, PRI Signalling signalling
>     -- Registered channel 26, PRI Signalling signalling
>     -- Registered channel 27, PRI Signalling signalling
>     -- Registered channel 28, PRI Signalling signalling
>     -- Registered channel 29, PRI Signalling signalling
>     -- Registered channel 30, PRI Signalling signalling
>     -- Registered channel 31, PRI Signalling signalling
>     -- Automatically generated pseudo channel
> Jul 13 17:00:05 ERROR[30297]: chan_zap.c:9090 start_pri: Unable to open D-channel 16 (Device or resource busy)
> Jul 13 17:00:05 ERROR[30297]: chan_zap.c:10903 setup_zap: Unable to start D-channel on span 1
> Jul 13 17:00:05 WARNING[30297]: loader.c:414 __load_resource: chan_zap.so: load_module failed, returning -1
> 
> Well, hence, how can i setup multiple dchan, on zaptel.conf (on the host system) or in zapata.conf(on the fork systems), to work with any group of channels?. Thanks
> 
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