On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 09:27:03PM +1100, Devraj Mukherjee wrote: > I recently upgraded to Asterisk 1.4 using the RPMS at ATrpms.net on > CentOS 4.4, Asterisk starts up but when I start the console it reports > this error and drops out. > > "Unable to connect to remote asterisk (does > /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl exist)?" > > I have checked to see that the file asterisk.ctl actually exists. Any > suggestions?
Have you tried asterisk -r as root or as a non-root user? See below for details. On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 08:10:29AM -0500, Steven wrote: > If you are not running asterisk as root, then change the permissions > on the /var/run/asterisk folder and below to allow you user access. asterisk on ATrpms runs as asterisk:asterisk and the folder belongs to that uid/gid: # ls -ld /var/run/asterisk drwxr-xr-x 2 asterisk asterisk 4096 Jan 16 17:30 /var/run/asterisk > Also, I seem to remember that on one release, the entry in > asterisk.conf did not match safe_asterisk. So the ctl file was NOT > where asterisk was looking. asterisk.conf does point to the same folder. # grep astrundir /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf astrundir => /var/run/asterisk And safe_asterisk/asterisk do use that file according to lsof asterisk 3u unix 0xffff8800332dfc00 213094 /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl If I call asterisk -r as root it succeeds, if as another user it will give Devraj's error message. That's probably how it is supposed to work, or not? -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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