First of all, thanks Philipp, Alan, Tzafrir and James for your valuable comments. I have listed below the exact list of commands to run for reinstalling asterisk 1.4.* as non-root on a Redhat / Fedora distro. Hope others can benefit.
I have the following comments/questions though: 1) #####What is safe_asterisk used for actually? I did not touch it in my modification because I don't know when is it triggered? 2) #####I do not actually know whether we really need to modify /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf? Is this file read by asterisk at all? Seems like an important file name - asterisk.conf? 3) It is safer to define a user called asterisk in group asterisk unless you want to make more changes to 2 files i.e. zaptel.rules and /etc/init.d/asterisk 4) There is an additional chmod to run for letting voicemail.conf to be written by group asterisk. # /etc/init.d/asterisk stop Shutting down asterisk: [ OK ] ---------------------------------------------------- # /usr/sbin/groupadd asterisk ---------------------------------------------------- # /usr/sbin/useradd -d /var/lib/asterisk -g asterisk asterisk useradd: warning: the home directory already exists. Not copying any file from skel directory into it. ---------------------------------------------------- # cp Makefile Makefile.org ---------------------------------------------------- *** *** Change the following line from: *** *** ASTVARRUNDIR=$(localstatedir)/run *** *** to *** *** ASTVARRUNDIR=$(localstatedir)/run/asterisk *** # vi Makefile [...] ifeq ($(OSARCH),SunOS) ASTETCDIR=/var/etc/asterisk ASTLIBDIR=/opt/asterisk/lib ASTVARLIBDIR=/var/opt/asterisk ASTSPOOLDIR=/var/spool/asterisk ASTLOGDIR=/var/log/asterisk ASTHEADERDIR=/opt/asterisk/include ASTBINDIR=/opt/asterisk/bin ASTSBINDIR=/opt/asterisk/sbin ASTVARRUNDIR=/var/run/asterisk ASTMANDIR=/opt/asterisk/man else ASTETCDIR=$(sysconfdir)/asterisk ASTLIBDIR=$(libdir)/asterisk ASTHEADERDIR=$(includedir)/asterisk ASTBINDIR=$(bindir) ASTSBINDIR=$(sbindir) ASTSPOOLDIR=$(localstatedir)/spool/asterisk ASTLOGDIR=$(localstatedir)/log/asterisk ASTVARRUNDIR=$(localstatedir)/run/asterisk ASTMANDIR=$(mandir) [...] ---------------------------------------------------- cd /usr/src/asterisk-1.4 make clean ./configure make make install ---------------------------------------------------- *** *** Don't panic! *** /var/run/asterisk should just be an empty directory but should just exist. *** ---------------------------------------------------- # chown --recursive asterisk:asterisk /var/lib/asterisk # chown --recursive asterisk:asterisk /var/log/asterisk # chown --recursive asterisk:asterisk /var/run/asterisk # chown --recursive asterisk:asterisk /var/spool/asterisk # chown --recursive asterisk:asterisk /usr/lib/asterisk # chown --recursive asterisk:asterisk /dev/zap ---------------------------------------------------- # chmod --recursive u=rwX,g=rX,o= /var/lib/asterisk # chmod --recursive u=rwX,g=rX,o= /var/log/asterisk # chmod --recursive u=rwX,g=rX,o= /var/run/asterisk # chmod --recursive u=rwX,g=rX,o= /var/spool/asterisk # chmod --recursive u=rwX,g=rX,o= /usr/lib/asterisk # chmod --recursive u=rwX,g=rX,o= /dev/zap ---------------------------------------------------- # chown --recursive root:asterisk /etc/asterisk # chmod --recursive u=rwX,g=rX,o= /etc/asterisk ---------------------------------------------------- # cp /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf.org # vi /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf *** *** Change the following line from: *** *** astrundir => /var/run *** *** to *** *** astrundir => /var/run/asterisk *** ---------------------------------------------------- # cp /etc/init.d/asterisk /etc/init.d/asterisk.org ---------------------------------------------------- # vi /etc/init.d/asterisk *** *** Uncomment the following line from: *** *** #AST_USER="asterisk" *** #AST_GROUP="asterisk" *** *** to *** *** AST_USER="asterisk" *** AST_GROUP="asterisk" *** ---------------------------------------------------- *** *** Asterisk needs to write to voicemail.conf for password change. *** # chmod g+w /etc/asterisk/voicemail.conf ---------------------------------------------------- *** *** Restart Asterisk by either of below: *** # /etc/init.d/asterisk restart ---------------------------------------------------- # asterisk -U asterisk -G asterisk ---------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ -- 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
