On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 02:24:37AM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 12:13:46AM +0100, Robert Lister wrote: > > On the first installation, it fell over with some error (I think it was some > > chown commands that it failed to run) (I have a more or less clean sarge > > build installed on Friday.) > > > > It DID initially put the config files in place, but refused to start > > asterisk as stuff seemed to have the wrong permissions, being installed as > > "root" instead of "asterisk" > > Which files?
everything in /var/spool/asterisk, /etc/asterisk and /var/log/asterisk was wrong permissions. Unfortunately I wasn't paying much attention at the time to the error when it installed (I'm a bit of a debian newbie so wasn't sure if this error was important or not.) > Any chance you tried to run 'asterisk' before that? I installed, from aptitude, the asterisk package, but there was no asterisk on the box before that. What may have happened is that I could have done "asterisk -vvvvvrc" to see if it was running or not, but as it didn't start, it was unabled to connect. > > I tried channging permissions on various directories etc to be owned by > > asterisk and not root, but I couldn't get it to work correctly, (even with > > my previously working asterisk config files I copied over from the old box) > > so I un-installed it and removed the various directories and tried a > > re-install. > > What exactly is "re-install" ? removing the asterisk package and putting it back again. > Those files are marked as config files. Any changes to them may be > recorded until you purge asterisk-config. > > Try: tigger:~# dpkg --purge --force-depends asterisk-config (Reading database ... 29103 files and directories currently installed.) Removing asterisk-config ... Purging configuration files for asterisk-config ... tigger:~# tigger:~# apt-get install -f Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: asterisk-config The following NEW packages will be installed: asterisk-config 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/61.2kB of archives. After unpacking 295kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Selecting previously deselected package asterisk-config. (Reading database ... 29057 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking asterisk-config (from .../asterisk-config_1%3a1.0.7.dfsg.1-2_all.deb) ... Setting up asterisk-config (1.0.7.dfsg.1-2) ... Setting up asterisk (1.0.7.dfsg.1-2) ... That looks a bit more promising. It hasn't put in place /etc/init.d/asterisk though it has installed the config files and the asterisk binary, so I removed and put it back again and this time it has placed it: dpkg --purge --force-depends asterisk-config dpkg --purge --force-depends asterisk apt-get -f apt-get install asterisk Out of interest, I just thought of something. If there was previously an "asterisk" user in /etc/passwd, would that screw it up? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
