asterisk users - Jan 2009 - Problems getting 1.6 to run with user asterisk and group asterisk

I've built SVN-trunk-r167180 and try to start it with:

asterisk -f -C /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf

which results in:

Unable to open pid file '/var/run/asterisk.pid': Permission denied
Unable to bind socket to /var/run/asterisk.ctl: Permission denied

However, /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf has:

astrundir => /var/run/asterisk
runuser = asterisk
rungroup = asterisk

The directory, user, and group exist.  Permissions are fine.  The only 
way I can get it to run is to edit defaults.h and change:

#define DEFAULT_RUN_DIR    "/var/run/asterisk"
#define DEFAULT_SOCKET     "/var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl"
#define DEFAULT_PID        "/var/run/asterisk/asterisk.pid"

After these changes and recompiling all is fine.

It seems that at startup asterisk.conf is being parsed, runuser and 
rungroup are being set, but astrundir is not overriding the defaults.

Am I missing something?

Alex

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 02:28:53AM -0600, Alejandro Kauffmann
wrote:
> I've built SVN-trunk-r167180 and try to start it with:
> 
> asterisk -f -C /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf
> 
> which results in:
> 
> Unable to open pid file '/var/run/asterisk.pid': Permission denied
> Unable to bind socket to /var/run/asterisk.ctl: Permission denied
> 
> However, /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf has:
> 
> astrundir => /var/run/asterisk
> runuser = asterisk
> rungroup = asterisk
Could you please post the complete file? (maybe grep -v '^;')

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