[asterisk-users] Strange Issue: asterisk deleted

[Thorsten Göllner]

Did you take a look at /var/log/syslog?

Am 26.11.2014 21:08, schrieb Antoine Megalla:
> Hi,
>
> I looked for asterisk in /usr/sbin using the commands ls and find and
> whereis and it was not there.
>
> I know that the process is killed because when I start asterisk using
> the command asterisk -vvvvc it starts and then it exits and the word
> killed is wrote on the console.
>
> Ever time I copy a new executable to /usr/sbin either using cp command
> or make install it gets deleted too.
>
> Now I used the strace command on asterisk and I can clearly see at the
> end of the strace the line : killed by SIGKILL 
> This means that something or someone is actually and purposely killing
> asterisk but I do not know what or who is doing that also I know that
> I am the only user on the system.
>
> Again any indicators to solve this very weird issue are welcomed.
>
> Regards,
> Antoine Megalla
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Nov 26, 2014, at 6:12 PM, Thorsten Göllner <tg at ovm-group.com
> <mailto:tg at ovm-group.com>> wrote:
>
>>
>> Am 26.11.2014 11:37, schrieb Antoine Megalla:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am struggling with  a very strange issue I have been facing for
>>> the past week;
>>> I have a fresh install of CENTOS 5.11 and I have installed asterisk
>>> 1.8.32 form sources.
>>> The asterisk installation went fine but as soon as I start asterisk
>>> executable it loads everything and then after the "Ready" line the
>>> process gets killed and when I try to run it again i get:
>>> /usr/sbin/asterisk : command not found
>>>
>>> I cleaned the source and re-installed asterisk and again the same
>>> thing happened again !!!
>>> I downloaded asterisk versions 1.4, 11, 12 and compiled them from
>>> sources and installed them (make install) and amazingly, the same
>>> thing happened to all of them: I do a "make" then "make install" and
>>> as soon as I start asterisk the process is killed and the executable
>>> removed from /usr/sbin.
>>>
>>> I tried to look a the asterisk log files but I cannot find a single
>>> error in them.
>>> Also if it was really deleted how did bash know that asterisk is
>>> supposed to be located in /usr/sbin/asterisk ?
>>>
>>> I tried to copy the executable myself after compilation (everything
>>> done as root) to the /usr/sbin and again if it runs then it is deleted.
>>>
>>> If someone can explain to me this behavior or advise me on what to
>>> check to resolve this issue, then I would be grateful.
>>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> you write "Also if it was really deleted .." - did you looked at it
>> via "ls /usr/sbin/asterisk"?
>>
>> You compiled asterisk (make / make install) as root I think. Perhaps
>> access rights are not set properly? root is owner but you try to
>> start the daemon as "normal" user?
>>
>> You write "the process is killed". Where do you now? Did you get a
>> message on your terminal? Did you take a look at /var/log/syslog?

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