On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 10:20 -0600, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > Brian wrote: > > > If you leave the defaults as they are (dictated by (!) in asterisk.conf) > > then the behaviour you get is Asterisk looking to /var/run/asterisk > > which the OS deletes on reboot. The question is why is this the default > > behaviour when it breaks systems that clear /var/run > > Because it's impossible to have defaults that work on every possible > system that might do anything the system installer can come up with. Quite - but the core as it is expect /var/run to be persistent and on several flavours of Linux it is not. It's fair to say that /var/run will probably be available in most cases so could the default behaviour not be to look there rather than /var/run/asterisk which may not?
I don't want to fight about it and I appreciate your defence of the current status quo - it's no big deal. I'm more than happy to admit I did not relaize that /var/run was emptied on Debian based distros on boot. Perhaps you could pass that information up to whoever builds the makefile -or add a little into the README as it confuses new users like me - who just want it to work. > > -- > Kevin P. Fleming > Digium, Inc. | Director of Software Technologies > 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA > skype: kpfleming | jabber: kpflem...@digium.com > Check us out at www.digium.com & www.asterisk.org > -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users