[asterisk-users] Unable to access the running directory (Permission denied).

[sean darcy]

On 04/07/2012 04:20 PM, Noah Engelberth wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of sean darcy
> Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2012 4:10 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [asterisk-users] Unable to access the running directory (Permission denied).
>
> On 10.3, running as user asterisk.
>
> ps aux | grep bin/asterisk
> asterisk  1860  0.2  1.8 1246948 33116 ?       Ssl  16:02   0:00
> /usr/sbin/asterisk -C /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf
>
> When I login into asterisk as user asterisk I get:
>
> "Unable to access the running directory (Permission denied).  Changing to '/' for compatibility."
>
> All the folders are set with asterisk.asterisk.
>
> /var/lib/asterisk
> /var/log/asterisk
> /var/run/asterisk
> /var/spool/asterisk
>
> Any suggestions appreciated.
>
> sean
>
>
> --
>
> In order to reconnect to asterisk (asterisk -r), you need root permissions.  So either you have to do it as root (bad), or use sudo to do it as user asterisk (recommended).
>
> Noah
>

Hmm. Surprising. I would have thought you could reconnect to asterisk if 
you were the user under which asterisk was running. But ok, will use sudo.

Thanks,

sean