[asterisk-users] Asterisk Server Down

[Steve Totaro]

Guido Hecken wrote:
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: Tzafrir Cohen [mailto:tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com]
>> Gesendet: Sonntag, 17. September 2006 15:56
>> An: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
>> Betreff: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Server Down
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 03:54:46PM +0200, Guido Hecken wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> obviously asterisk doesn't start with the installed(?) start script.
>>> Try to start it manually and watch the cli for informations with
>>> asterisk -vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvc
>>>       
>> One warning: if your system is normally configured to run as non-root,
>> this may cause it to write some fiels as root, and not start properly
>> next time you start it with the standard script.
>>
>> With the Debian packages, use:
>>
>> /etc/init.d/asterisk debug
>>
>> Which is normally just a glorified:
>>
>>   asterisk -U asterisk -vv
>>     
>
> Tzafrir,
>
> you're right, one should proof, under which user asterisk runs...
> Besides security reasons, running asterisk as root, doesn't it allow a
> higher prioritization of asterisk processes?
>
> Guido
>
>   
I can see a problem with security issues but is it a bad thing to allow 
higher priority of the asterisk process?  Not sure that it does anyways, 
but I don't see how that is a bad thing?