[asterisk-users] Which is the most FHS-esque way to run several Asterisk instances on a single host ?

[Olivier]

Link [1] interestingly details how you can run several daemon instances
with systemctl.
Note that the author uses things like

/run/asterisk/instance-foo
/var/lib/asterisk/instance-foo

[1]
https://opensource.com/article/20/12/multiple-service-instances-systemctl

Le ven. 20 nov. 2020 à 18:29, Olivier <oza.4h07 at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hello,
>
> What is the most FHS-esque (see [1])  way to run several Asterisk
> instances on a single (Debian) host ?
>
> What would you recommend ?
> Would gather each instance directories (etc/, run/, lib/, ...)  in
> something like /srv/instance1/
> (it doesn't please me as I like to put variable data in /var and on so) ?
>
> Alternatively, would you with /etc/asterisk1/, /var/lib/asterisk1, ... ?
>
> Would you even create a dedicated system user, one per instance, to
> further isolate asterisk instances data ?
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
>
> Cheers
>
> PS: On a Debian-packaged Asterisk, I've got /usr/sbin/rasterisk linked to
> /usr/sbin/asterisk. How can you explain directly running /usr/sbin/asterisk
> "requires" a -r option while  /usr/sbin/rasterisk does not ?
>
>
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