asterisk users - Aug 2003 - Can I runAsterisk remotely from telnet session?

I am having problems trying to run asterisk from a telnet session. I am
able to su to root and the command asterisk does not work. Any ideas why
this may be occurring? I thought Asterisk could be configured remotely
as well as run remotely? 
            Thanks in advance.
 
Steve Lane
 
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> From: mawali@news.icns.com [mailto:mawali@news.icns.com]
> 
> Please explain, what do you mean by "does not work". It looks
like a
path
> problem. Instead of using "su" use "su -".
> 
> "su" does not initialize the environment for the user you are
"su"ing
as,
> but "su -" will. /sbin and /usr/sbin a special path's that
are only in
> root's environment.
Another thing I'm doing while soak testing an application (pre
/etc/init.d startup script) is to run 'screen' as an unpriviledged user,
then 'su -' to root (or even better, 'sudo su -') followed by
starting
the application.

At that point CTRL-A CTRL-D will disconnect the session. Later, a quick
'screen -r' gets you back to that console.

But agreed, a *NIX 101 book would be beneficial.

HTH too,

--- Gavin

Personally I'd use ssh rather than telnet 

Andy

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On 15/08/2003 at 12:21 Steve Lane wrote:
>I am having problems trying to run asterisk from a telnet session. I am
>able to su to root and the command asterisk does not work. Any ideas why
>this may be occurring? I thought Asterisk could be configured remotely
>as well as run remotely? 
>            Thanks in advance.
> 
>Steve Lane
> 
>
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Please explain, what do you mean by "does not work". It looks like a
path
problem. Instead of using "su" use "su -". 

"su" does not initialize the environment for the user you are
"su"ing as,
but "su -" will. /sbin and /usr/sbin a special path's that are
only in
root's environment.

Hope this help, I will recommend reading a book on UNIX, this is UNIX 101 
stuff.


On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Steve Lane wrote:
> I am having problems trying to run asterisk from a telnet session. I am
> able to su to root and the command asterisk does not work. Any ideas why
> this may be occurring? I thought Asterisk could be configured remotely
> as well as run remotely? 
>             Thanks in advance.
>  
> Steve Lane
>  
>