Brian, It could be that the ownership/permissions on the directory are not correct. Are you running asterisk as asterisk:asterisk or root:root?
Here is an article that lists the directories and what the ownership/permissions on each one should be: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+non-root On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:57:44AM +0000, Brian wrote: > Since upgrading from 1.6.1 to 1.6.2 I get this error on boot: > Unable to open pid file '/var/run/asterisk/asterisk.pid': No such file > or directory > > Or if I try to connect to Asterisk: > Unable to connect to remote asterisk > (does /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl exist?) > > If I manually create /var/run/asterisk/ and restart Asterisk I can > connect to it, but if the server is rebooted /var/run/asterisk/ > disappears and warning comes back. > > I could doctor the init.d script to overcome this, but I'm not sure it's > the right thing to do. Can anyone explain the best way for me to get > over this? > > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- 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 -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- 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
