Herbert Poetzl wrote: > On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 12:27:56PM -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: >> Roderick A. Anderson wrote: >>> One more time but with feeling I attempt to get Asterisk running in a >>> guest. Seriously this time. :-) > >> Well you guys a far too slow. :-) Strange sense of humor that failed. :-( > > I assumed your 'questions' were rhetorical, as > everybody knows that device nodes can be created > with mknod or simply copied from the host ;-) Yes. My reference below to kind-of had an idea. >> I had to figure it out myself. >> But to give us all a break I kind-of had an idea and it seems to work. Same poor sense of humor leaking out. >> Form the host: > >> cd /vservers/$GUEST/dev >> mknod tty9 c 4 9 > >> I then entered the guest and was able to "service asterisk start". >> I don't know if it is really _working_, verses just running, but >> I can now proceed to the next steps. > > asterisk was reported running fine a few year ago > (the first time), so I guess it will be fine ... I think I do remember seeing something about this. I'll go digging in the archives. Rod -- > > best, > Herbert > >> \\||/ >> Rod >> -- >>> I have a CentOS 5 host and a CentOS 5 guest with Asterisk 1.6 installed >> >from the asterisk.org and digium.com repositories. >>> I can start Asterisk from the command line (though I don't have it >>> configured) but when I try "service asterisk start" (which uses >>> safe_asterisk) I get the error: >>> >>> Starting asterisk: Cannot find specified TTY (9) [FAILED] >>> >>> The man pages says: >>> >>> ... >>> >>> DESCRIPTION >>> safe_asterisk is a script that runs asterisk in a loop, which >>> can be useful if you fear asterisk may crash. >>> >>> The script does not run in the background like a standard >>> service. Rather, it runs in its own linux virtual console (9, >>> by default). It also uses the option ???-c??? of asterisk(8) to >>> avoid detaching asterisk from that terminal. >>> >>> safe_asterisk also runs asterisk with unlimited core file >>> size, and thus asterisk will dump core in case of a crash. >>> >>> To get a "picture" of console 9, from another terminal (e.g: >>> from a remote shell session) you can use: >>> >>> ... >>> >>> I've tried not using safe_asterisk in the init script but I got a simple >>> FAILED but haven't found an error message -- yet -- as to what the >>> problem is. >>> >>> I'm going to the Asterisk list shortly to find out how/if-it's-possible >>> to disable or remove this "feature" but would prefer to work with it. >>> >>> In the mean time is there a way to allow safe_asterisk to use virtual >>> console 9? Create it in the guest? >>> >>> >>> TIA, >>> Rod