[asterisk-users] Problems getting 1.6 to run with user asterisk and group asterisk

[Alejandro Kauffmann]

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 09:39:36PM -0600, Alejandro Kauffmann wrote:
>> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 02:28:53AM -0600, Alejandro Kauffmann wrote:
>>>> I've built SVN-trunk-r167180 and try to start it with:
>>>>
>>>> asterisk -f -C /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf
>>>>
>>>> which results in:
>>>>
>>>> Unable to open pid file '/var/run/asterisk.pid': Permission denied
>>>> Unable to bind socket to /var/run/asterisk.ctl: Permission denied
>>>>
>>>> However, /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf has:
>>>>
>>>> astrundir => /var/run/asterisk
>>>> runuser = asterisk
>>>> rungroup = asterisk
>>> Could you please post the complete file? (maybe grep -v '^;')
>>>
>> Tzafrir here is the output you requested:
>>
>> [directories](!) ; remove the (!) to enable this
> 
> With the '(!)' this section has no effect.
> 
>> astetcdir => /etc/asterisk
>> astmoddir => /usr/lib/asterisk/modules
>> astvarlibdir => /var/lib/asterisk
>> astdbdir => /var/lib/asterisk
>> astkeydir => /var/lib/asterisk
>> astdatadir => /var/lib/asterisk
>> astagidir => /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin
>> astspooldir => /var/spool/asterisk
>> astrundir => /var/run/asterisk
>> astlogdir => /var/log/asterisk
> 
Tsafrir:

Thank you for that.  My reading skills must not be up to par.  I guess 
the use of a template section in asterisk.conf was not something I 
expected and thus ignored.

Alex