asterisk users - Mar 2004 - safe_asterisk with non-root user

Hello,

I've found a couple of previous posts on this subject, but with no 
posted resolution...

I'm attempting to run * as a non-root user (asterisk), following the 
guidelines on the wiki:

	http://voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk%20non-root

I can run * as my new user with "/usr/sbin/asterisk -vvvvc" without 
problem.

However, I'm unable to run * using safe_asterisk with my new user:

	Asterisk ended with exit status 127
	Asterisk died with code 127.  Aborting.

safe_asterisk is trying to use tty9 and I have changed the ownership 
appropriately:

# ls -l /dev/tty9
crw-rw-rw-    1 asterisk tty        4,   9 Mar 31 17:37 /dev/tty9

Any idea about what is wrong?

thx!
Ryan

Turned out to be a dumb mistake on my part.

when su'ing to my non-root user, I was losing my PATH info.

safe_asterisk assumes /usr/sbin is in the PATH.

Cheers
Ryan

On 31-Mar-04, at 5:59 PM, Ryan Courtnage wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've found a couple of previous posts on this subject, but with no 
> posted resolution...
>
> I'm attempting to run * as a non-root user (asterisk), following the 
> guidelines on the wiki:
>
> 	http://voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk%20non-root
>
> I can run * as my new user with "/usr/sbin/asterisk -vvvvc"
without
> problem.
>
> However, I'm unable to run * using safe_asterisk with my new user:
>
> 	Asterisk ended with exit status 127
> 	Asterisk died with code 127.  Aborting.
>
> safe_asterisk is trying to use tty9 and I have changed the ownership 
> appropriately:
>
> # ls -l /dev/tty9
> crw-rw-rw-    1 asterisk tty        4,   9 Mar 31 17:37 /dev/tty9
>
> Any idea about what is wrong?
>
> thx!
> Ryan
>
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Hi,

I'm attempting to run * as a non-root user (asterisk),  I can run * as 
my new user with "/usr/sbin/asterisk -vvvvc" without problem.

However, I'm unable to run * using safe_asterisk with my user, the error 
shown is:

        Asterisk ended with exit status 127


safe_asterisk is trying to use tty9 and I have changed the ownership 
appropriately with chmod:
Why isn't safe_asterisk working?

TIA

Giorgio