asterisk users - Apr 2006 - Unable to connect to remote asterisk (does / var/run/asterisk.ctl exist?)

the user you are connecting as should have full rights to /var/run/asterisk:


http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+non-root

hth

-----Original Message-----
From: Erick Perez [mailto:eaperezh@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 9:28 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Unable to connect to remote asterisk (does
/var/run/asterisk.ctl exist?)


Hi, im running asterisk as another user (user x group x), While trying
to attach to the console I get this error:
[root@centos keys]# asterisk -rvvvvvvvv
Unable to connect to remote asterisk (does /var/run/asterisk.ctl exist?)
[root@centos keys]#

the file exists and it is:
srwxr-xr-x  1 root root 0 Apr  1 20:32 /var/run/asterisk.ctl

Suggestions?

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Double-check your asterisk.conf file.

I did a new build of asterisk and the ctl file was pointing to the /var/run
folder.

I changed the asterisk.conf to use the /var/run/asterisk folder which is
writable by my asterisk user.
everything was fine after that.

my ctl and pid files are in the /var/run/asterisk folder.

Note:  if asterisk is failing to make the ctl file, it is also likely to not be
making the pid file, so if you are using
safe_asterisk to start asterisk, you will have troubles. (ex: safe_asterisk
stop, will not stop asterisk)


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"Colin Anderson" <ColinA@landmarkmasterbuilder.com> wrote in
message
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> the user you are connecting as should have full rights to
/var/run/asterisk:
>
>
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+non-root
>
> hth
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erick Perez [mailto:eaperezh@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 9:28 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Unable to connect to remote asterisk (does
> /var/run/asterisk.ctl exist?)
>
>
> Hi, im running asterisk as another user (user x group x), While trying
> to attach to the console I get this error:
> [root@centos keys]# asterisk -rvvvvvvvv
> Unable to connect to remote asterisk (does /var/run/asterisk.ctl exist?)
> [root@centos keys]#
>
> the file exists and it is:
> srwxr-xr-x  1 root root 0 Apr  1 20:32 /var/run/asterisk.ctl
>
> Suggestions?
>
> --
>
> -------------------------------------------
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> Linux User 376588
> http://counter.li.org/  (Get counted!!!)
> Panama, Republic of Panama
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I ran strace and got this:
open("/var/run/asterisk.pid", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = -1
EACCES (Permission denied)
open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY)        = 3
Unable to open pid file '/var/run/asterisk.pid': Permission denied

/var/run has root:root permissions.


On 4/3/06, Colin Anderson <ColinA@landmarkmasterbuilder.com>
wrote:
> the user you are connecting as should have full rights to
/var/run/asterisk:
>
>
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+non-root
>
> hth
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erick Perez [mailto:eaperezh@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 9:28 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Unable to connect to remote asterisk (does
> /var/run/asterisk.ctl exist?)
>
>
> Hi, im running asterisk as another user (user x group x), While trying
> to attach to the console I get this error:
> [root@centos keys]# asterisk -rvvvvvvvv
> Unable to connect to remote asterisk (does /var/run/asterisk.ctl exist?)
> [root@centos keys]#
>
> the file exists and it is:
> srwxr-xr-x  1 root root 0 Apr  1 20:32 /var/run/asterisk.ctl
>
> Suggestions?
>
> --
>
> -------------------------------------------
> Erick Perez
> Linux User 376588
> http://counter.li.org/  (Get counted!!!)
> Panama, Republic of Panama
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Panama, Republic of Panama