On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 04:51:29PM +0000, Brian wrote: > 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.
Asterisk is not the only service with this problem in Ubuntu. Check others under /etc/init.d . > 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? So you say it should be fixed in the init.d script? As in http://svnview.digium.com/svn/asterisk?view=revision&revision=177852 > > 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. Adding documentation is what you do when things fail to work. I suspect you use an older init.d script. Alternatively, you can use the simpler upstart conf file: http://svnview.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk/contrib/upstart/asterisk.user.conf?view=markup -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 jabber:tzafrir.co...@xorcom.com +972-50-7952406 mailto:tzafrir.co...@xorcom.com http://www.xorcom.com iax:gu...@local.xorcom.com/tzafrir -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- 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