asterisk users - Jan 2010 - ASTSBINDIR not being picked up by safe_asterisk

Recently safe_asterisk is failing to pick up ASTSBINDIR.  I've never had 
this problem before and even when I move to back versions I have the 
issue.  I did upgrade safe_asterisk and the init.d scripts a version or 
so ago but even when I try older ones I still have the problem. When I 
hard code the location things seem to work.  The problem that occurs is:

cat: __ASTERISK_VARRUN_DIR__/asterisk.pid: No such file or directory
Automatically restarting Asterisk.

But I think this is just a side effect of not finding asterisk in the 
/usr/sbin directory in the first place.

Anyone run across this or have an idea what might have happened?  I 
don't know if it was a Redhat update issue or some change in my 
configuration or what.

When I make the following change in safe_asterisk it works ok:

ASTSBINDIR=__ASTERISK_SBIN_DIR__
ASTSBINDIR=/usr/sbin


Here are my version levels:

Asterisk 1.6.2.1 built by root on a x86_64 running Linux on 2010-01-15 
16:22:39 UTC
Linux 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 6 13:26:04 EST 2010 x86_64 
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


MARK.

On Monday 25 January 2010 08:52:45 Mark Hulber wrote:
> Recently safe_asterisk is failing to pick up ASTSBINDIR.  I've never
had
> this problem before and even when I move to back versions I have the
> issue.  I did upgrade safe_asterisk and the init.d scripts a version or
> so ago but even when I try older ones I still have the problem. When I
> hard code the location things seem to work.  The problem that occurs is:
>
> cat: __ASTERISK_VARRUN_DIR__/asterisk.pid: No such file or directory
> Automatically restarting Asterisk.
>
> But I think this is just a side effect of not finding asterisk in the
> /usr/sbin directory in the first place.
>
> Anyone run across this or have an idea what might have happened?  I
> don't know if it was a Redhat update issue or some change in my
> configuration or what.
>
> When I make the following change in safe_asterisk it works ok:
>
> ASTSBINDIR=__ASTERISK_SBIN_DIR__
> ASTSBINDIR=/usr/sbin
Sounds like you manually copied the safe_asterisk script to /usr/sbin, instead
of relying on 'make install' to do it for you.  The install target does
some
extra processing of the script for you.

-- 
Tilghman