[asterisk-users] problem with Asterisk on Ubuntu

[Christian]

Hi,
If Asterisk is running as the root user, I had to do:
sudo asterisk -r


On 2008-12-11 at 23:54 henry at henrythebig.com wrote:

>Try first just "asterisk" and after "asterisk -r"
>If still doesn't start try "asterisk -vvvvc" to verbose...
>
>Best regards,
>
>Chris Hariga
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>Hello there,
>
>I am trying to get Asterisk set up by using the book Asterisk: The
>Future of Telephony.  I am on Chapter 4.  I have have set up Zaptel and
>zapata.conf and also set up extensions.conf and when I run "asterisk -r"
>at the Gnome-terminal to connect with Asterisk I get the following
>message:
>Unable to connect with remote asterisk
>(does /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl exist?)  It sure does exist.  I
>also see I am running like a hundred different modules according to
>"/var/log/asterisk/messages."
>
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