Thanks for the swift response Luki.  Have you checked out:

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+non-root

recently?  Does it seem up to date to you?  It indicates it was
updated in March of this tear, but I did this once and don't want to
go thru all the hassle if the directions are outdated!!

Cheers,
Howard

On 5/5/06, Luki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I saw where one should not run Asterisk as root:
> How important is this?

It's probably not very important at the moment, however, it's not that
hard to do either. I run Asterisk non-root and in a chrooted
environment -- it keeps all necessary files nicely separated (easily
portable, easy to switch versions), doesn't clog up common
directories. Just make a new directory like /usr/local/asterisk and
use that as the root for the chrooted environment. Chown all /var and
/etc/asterisk files in there to the asterisk user and you're good to
go. The tough part is to get all the shared libraries copies over --
ldd is your friend.

--Luki
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