asterisk users - May 2005 - Ubuntu Migration

I've just migrated Asterisk from my old Gentoo system to an Ubuntu system, 
copied across all the /etc/asterisk files and now it fails to work. After 
brief looks, I find that it can't access:

/var/log/asterisk/messages
/var/run/asterisk.ctl
/var/run/asterisk.pid

So I touched these files, and chown/chgrp'd then to user/group 
asterisk/asterisk. Now, when I run asterisk through /etc/init.d/asterisk 
(Ubuntu is a Debianalike) it says "Unable to set high priority".

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Matthew Walster
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On 5/17/05, Matthew Walster <matthew@walster.org>
wrote:
> I've just migrated Asterisk from my old Gentoo system to an Ubuntu
system,
> copied across all the /etc/asterisk files and now it fails to work. After
> brief looks, I find that it can't access:
> 
> /var/log/asterisk/messages
> /var/run/asterisk.ctl
> /var/run/asterisk.pid
> 
> So I touched these files, and chown/chgrp'd then to user/group
> asterisk/asterisk. Now, when I run asterisk through /etc/init.d/asterisk
> (Ubuntu is a Debianalike) it says "Unable to set high priority".
Debian has it's own way of installing asterisk.  You should probably
install asterisk again, then copy over only the files you need from
your gentoo box instead of copying the whole directory over.

Or you can install from source which is the best way IMO.

Chris

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 07:07:02AM +0100, Matthew Walster
wrote:
> I've just migrated Asterisk from my old Gentoo system to an Ubuntu
system,
> copied across all the /etc/asterisk files and now it fails to work. After 
> brief looks, I find that it can't access:
> 
> /var/log/asterisk/messages
> /var/run/asterisk.ctl
> /var/run/asterisk.pid
If you want asterisk to run as its own user, it should be able to write
its own socket, probably. Better let it write things in its own
/var/run/asterisk owned by asterisk .

Ditto for /var/logs/asterisk . Especially if you also log CDR records
there. If you install asterisk manually don't forget to add proper
log-rotation commands there. The current default
/etc/logrotate.d/asterisk:

/var/log/asterisk/cdr-csv/Master.csv /var/log/asterisk/debug
/var/log/asterisk/event_log /var/log/asterisk/messages {
        weekly
        missingok
        rotate 4
        sharedscripts
        postrotate
                /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d asterisk logger-reload
        endscript
}

The ownership of the /dev/zap files in Debian Sarge is not by the user 
asterisk , rather by the group 'dialout' (why? mainly to allow 
co-existance with other packages that use zaptel) . This convention 
was set quite recently and I don't know if Ubuntu will follow it.

Should you follow those conventions? No. Those are just recommendations.
They will be followed by other Debian asterisk-related packages and
software, so I guess you should, if it doesn't cause too much trouble.
> 
> So I touched these files, and chown/chgrp'd then to user/group 
> asterisk/asterisk. Now, when I run asterisk through /etc/init.d/asterisk 
> (Ubuntu is a Debianalike) it says "Unable to set high priority".
Permissions? The init.d script you use changes to the user asterisk with
'start-stop-daemon' rather than letting asterisk do that on its own? The
Debian package used to have that problem, but it was some monthes ago.

Also I know that the Debian Sarge package has a one or two small patches 
for doing the SUID process properly.

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