I was following the instruction on http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+non-root to re-install my Asterisk as non-root when I had the following questions/issues:
1) " Use your system's preferred method of adding a new user. Examples: Red Hat: adduser -c "Asterisk PBX" -d /var/lib/asterisk -u 5060 asterisk" ###Why did we have to choose uid as 5060? ###In fact, do you need to specify the uid at all? 2) "Edit your Asterisk config file (/etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf): astrundir => /var/run/asterisk Recompile and reinstall Asterisk." ### Seems a bit strange to modify this before you recompile. ### As it turns out, the reinstall did not change the astrundir variable ### You have to manually modify it if this modification is actually required. 3) "Also, make note that if you're running udev on your system (linux-2.6), the /dev directory is dynamically populated with device nodes, meaning that any permissions you set on /dev/zap will be lost on your next reboot, and you may get a nasty message such as "Asterisk ended with exit status 1" when trying to start asterisk. Read the file /path/to/zaptel-src-1.2.x/README.udev for instructions on how to change the user/group assigned to /dev/zap. " ### There is actually no README.udev file in zaptel source. ### Do I need to worry about this if "uname -r" returns 2.6.18-8.el5 ### What actually is udev? 4) "Asterisk needs read permission for these directories and their contents: /etc/asterisk. chown --recursive root:asterisk /etc/asterisk" ### root is not in group asterisk ### All the while, the instruction has been saying to create a user asterisk ### under group asterisk. ### Does it mean to put root into group asterisk as well??? ### Or should it be "chown --recursive asterisk:asterisk /etc/asterisk" ? 5) Another article says that running as non-root will prevent ToS being used. What is ToS? Do I need to be concerned? Any thoughts? _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users