[asterisk-users] Re: Can't find asterisk.ctl under CentOS installation

[Devraj Mukherjee]

Thanks AT.

On 1/24/07, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 06:20:08PM +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 03:54:49PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 02:48:07PM +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > If I call asterisk -r as root it succeeds, if as another user it will
> > > > give Devraj's error message. That's probably how it is supposed to
> > > > work, or not?
> > >
> > > Just a thought: shouldn't the asterisk user be allowed write access to
> > > that control socket? Or maybe the asterisk group?
> >
> > The asterisk user is allowed, too, of course, the group not (yet).
> >
> > > (for quick&dirty shell scripts)
> >
> > I think that makes very much sense. The socket is created by asterisk,
> > is there a parameter to specify permissions/umask of that socket?
>
> Looks like all there is needed is to uncomment the following line in
> the default config file:
>
> [files]
> astctlpermissions = 0660
>
> But since upstream defaults to not do so and only have this done by
> the user, I wouldn't like to change this policy on the package level.
> --
> Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
>
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