[Asterisk-Users] Re: Running Asterisk as non-root

[hugolivude]

Oh boy - thanks.  I use g729...

H

On 5/5/06, Douglas Garstang <dgarstang at oneeighty.com> wrote:
> If you run Asterisk as non root, you may have problems installing G729
> licenses. The digium registration utility has certain hard coded stuff, and
> doesn't behave well when things aren't installed in the standard location.
>
> Doug.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Luki [mailto:lugosoft at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 4:53 PM
> > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Running Asterisk as non-root
> >
> >
> > > I saw where one should not run Asterisk as root:
> > > How important is this?
> >
> > It's probably not very important at the moment, however, it's not that
> > hard to do either. I run Asterisk non-root and in a chrooted
> > environment -- it keeps all necessary files nicely separated (easily
> > portable, easy to switch versions), doesn't clog up common
> > directories. Just make a new directory like /usr/local/asterisk and
> > use that as the root for the chrooted environment. Chown all /var and
> > /etc/asterisk files in there to the asterisk user and you're good to
> > go. The tough part is to get all the shared libraries copies over --
> > ldd is your friend.
> >
> > --Luki
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