asterisk users - Mar 2006 - Unable to open Asterisk database

Hi, i have asterisk 1.2.5 working fine from a database in the following way:
asterisk loaded as root
realtime logging to a mysqld 5.x daemon listening in localhost
database is astbill with username astbilluser allowed to the database
the root user in mysqld has a password

res_mysql.conf in /etc/asterisk has:
[general]
dbhost = 127.0.0.1
dbname = astbill
dbuser = astbilluser
dbpass = xxxxxxxxxxxx
dbport = 3306

I now want to run asterisk with the -U asterisk and -G asterisk
credentials. When I do it I have the error (asterisk is a valid
user/group in the system with nologin as shell):
/var/log/asterisk/messages:
WARNING[5230] db.c: Unable to open Asterisk database
WARNING[5230] db.c: Database unavailable

asterisk does not exist in mysqld as a user.

Asterisk loads, but cannot connect to the database, What other perms
should I give it either to the mysqld or to asterisk?

Thanks,

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Erick Perez
Linux User 376588
http://counter.li.org/  (Get counted!!!)
Panama, Republic of Panama

Erick,
> I now want to run asterisk with the -U asterisk and -G asterisk
> credentials. When I do it I have the error (asterisk is a valid
> user/group in the system with nologin as shell):
> /var/log/asterisk/messages:
> WARNING[5230] db.c: Unable to open Asterisk database
> WARNING[5230] db.c: Database unavailable
I believe this refers to the AstDB not the mySQL database. Make sure
the astdb file is writeable by user asterisk. The file is usually in
/var/lib/astdb.

--Luki