[asterisk-users] A reason TO run Asterisk as root

[Jeff LaCoursiere]

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Olivier wrote:

> 2009/7/22 Steve Edwards <asterisk.org at sedwards.com>
>
>> I finally found a reason TO run Asterisk as root.
>>
>> By default, ext[23] file systems "reserve" 5% of the filesystem for root.
>
> Do you imply this default can (and should) be changed ?
> Is it the same for other filesystems ?
>

No - I think you are all getting his intention wrong.  He is saying that 
it is a GOOD thing, and that you get a warning before the disk fills and 
processes start crashing.

If you run asterisk as 'asterisk', then this holdover percentage (I 
actually thought the default was 10%) is not accessible by the asterisk 
process, and once the filesystem hits 100% the process might crash.

So to rephrase it:

One GOOD reason to run asterisk as root is that you get to take advantage 
of the default filesystem overflow space reserved for root.

j

>>
>>
>> Thus, you may get some warning when everything non-root starts failing
>> and give you a chance to free up some space before Asterisk is affected.
>>
>> --
>> Thanks in advance,
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