Reza,

This isn't any specific advice and you've probably already thought of
it but I'll put it out there anyway.

Almost all of the problems that I've encountered running Asterisk as
non-root are file system permission related.  A lot of it is probably
because I'm not a lifetime Linux user and some things aren't obvious
to me.  Often I would have things working just fine, then I would su
and run a script, run asterisk or make some kind of change and the
asterisk user would no longer have permission to some file.  I
particularly remember troubleshooting zaptel module load order and
finding that /dev/zaptel wasn't accessible when running safe_asterisk.

I have a great tool for dealing with this in windows.  It's called
filemon, I think it's from sysinternals.  Basically, it records every
attempted file system operation and the outcome.  It was great on my
Citrix servers especially which had no C drive.  The system drive is M
and the apps drive is N in my case.  Lots of installers would ask me
where I wanted to install, and I'd say 'n:\program files\NewApp'.  The
installer would happily go installing most of the stuff in the
specified directory then try to write some file to
c:\windows\system32.  Somebody hard coded a path and it filemon always
came through for me and showed me what the dumb installer was trying
to do and where.

So... That's a long way of saying, I hope there's a program for Linux
that does something similar.  It usually creates a huge pile of data
but you can filter it and sift through and see which file operation is
failing.

Good Luck,
Dave

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