Hello Shidan: Yes, I am running Exim and Asterisk as two different users. Fedora is my OS, simply because my colo tech support & sys admins are all Fedora gurus. Otherwise I would have gone with Debian, or the popular derivate of Debian which is Ubuntu.
My only reservation of running Asterisk as root is security as others have access to my Asterisk to manage it when I am away. It's not that I don't trust them... I do... but more because you simply increase the chances of a password leak when more than 1 person has the root password. Trust is a huge factor here... simply because I don't trust myself! ;). Thanks for the tip! That is what I was looking for. Cheers! Reza. ----- Original Message ----- From: Shidan To: Reza - Asterisk Enthusiast Cc: [email protected] Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 12:02 AM Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Asterisk Voice Mail not going through. If you don't want to run exim and asterisk as the same user, you have to make sure that the mailbox and forward files, plus a couple of others I can't rememer are read/writeable by exim, otherwise it cant deliver it locally, remotely it's no problem. Try setting security to seteuid from the default setuid in the config, this should work on most debian derivatives, don't know if it will on ubuntu if thats what u are using.. On 8/27/06, Shidan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are you running asterisk and exim under the same user or different ones? On 8/26/06, Reza - Asterisk Enthusiast < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have quite an unique situation and I am brain dead. Since more people besides myself have access to my Asterisk box, I made the decision a while ago to install Asterisk as NON-ROOT. All has been working well without much difficulty. Except for voice mail. Actually voice mail also works. To be more specific, its the voice mail attachments. I have one domain hosted on the same asterisk box. All voice attachments are sent out except the e-mail accounts on the local box, and it gets frozen. This problem did not occur when Asterisk ran as ROOT. So any information here is appreciated on what I can do. Below is the relevant mail log. Thank you. 2006-08-26 03:31:33 1GGsdh-0000VC-4J lowest numbered MX record points to local host: my-domain-name.com 2006-08-26 03:31:33 1GGsdh-0000VC-4J == email @ my-domain -name . com R=lookuphost defer (-1): lowest numbered MX record points to local host 2006-08-26 03:31:33 1GGsdh-0000VC-4J Frozen So yes, the MX record does point back to the local host, but why is the message frozen and lost in space? Why is this problem gone when I run Asterisk as root. My work around was to send to google mail, filter it and send it back to my email address sitting on the asterisk server. Brain dead, Reza.
