[asterisk-users] a problem on Ubuntu with Asterisk

[Rodrigo Gonzalez]

Scott Berry wrote:
> Have a nice day,
> Scott Berry
> E-mail:  N7zib at northlc.com    
>
> I  am studying out of the book Asterisk:  The Future of Telephony  on
> Chapter 4,   and right now for practicing using the built in Debian
> version of Asterisk for Ubuntu.  I am however having some problem where
> I cannot do "asterisk -r" and hook up to the asterisk CLI.  I have
> checked to see that "/var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl" is available which
> it is.  I have also set up the zaptel.conf, zapata.conf and also the
> extensions.conf as specified in the book.  The error I get is:
>
> "Unable to connect to asterisk remote
> (does /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl exist?"  Yes it certainly does.
> Any help would be appreciated.  if need be i would be happy to send my
> extensions.conf, zaptel.conf, and zapata.conf to the lisOne other
> question I think I am correct on this but not sure does zaptel.conf and
> zapata.conf go in to "/etc?"
>
> Thanks for all the help.
>
>
>
>
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Permissions problems?

sudo asterisk -r