[asterisk-users] ASTSBINDIR not being picked up by safe_asterisk

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Tuesday 26 January 2010 10:08:39 Mark Hulber wrote:
> On 1/25/2010 7:06 PM, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> > On Monday 25 January 2010 08:52:45 Mark Hulber wrote:
> >> Recently safe_asterisk is failing to pick up ASTSBINDIR.  I've never had
> >> this problem before and even when I move to back versions I have the
> >> issue.  I did upgrade safe_asterisk and the init.d scripts a version or
> >> so ago but even when I try older ones I still have the problem. When I
> >> hard code the location things seem to work.  The problem that occurs is:
> >>
> >> cat: __ASTERISK_VARRUN_DIR__/asterisk.pid: No such file or directory
> >> Automatically restarting Asterisk.
> >>
> >> But I think this is just a side effect of not finding asterisk in the
> >> /usr/sbin directory in the first place.
> >>
> >> Anyone run across this or have an idea what might have happened?  I
> >> don't know if it was a Redhat update issue or some change in my
> >> configuration or what.
> >>
> >> When I make the following change in safe_asterisk it works ok:
> >>
> >> ASTSBINDIR=__ASTERISK_SBIN_DIR__
> >> ASTSBINDIR=/usr/sbin
> >
> > Sounds like you manually copied the safe_asterisk script to /usr/sbin,
> > instead of relying on 'make install' to do it for you.  The install
> > target does some extra processing of the script for you.
>
> When I run "make install" I don't see this file getting overwritten.  Do
> I have to delete it to get this to happen?

Correct.  It's only created if it doesn't already exist.

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