On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:28:53PM +0000, Brian wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 14:15 +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > {snip} > > So the questions to ask are, I believe: > > > > * Should asterisk here be run as root? If so: why? > It suits me to run it that way on the device concerned.
Could you please be more specific? > > * Where should the astvarrundir be? > If you leave the defaults as they are (dictated by (!) in asterisk.conf) > then the behaviour you get is Asterisk looking to /var/run/asterisk > which the OS deletes on reboot. The question is why is this the default > behaviour when it breaks systems that clear /var/run Because we should make it simple to run Asterisk as non-root. > > This was - btw - a compile from source, not packaged offering. Right. But packagers have a way of running into platform-specific bugs. -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 jabber:tzafrir.co...@xorcom.com +972-50-7952406 mailto:tzafrir.co...@xorcom.com http://www.xorcom.com iax:gu...@local.xorcom.com/tzafrir -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- 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