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. :-) I assumed your 'questions' were rhetorical, as everybody knows that device nodes can be created with mknod or simply copied from the host ;-) > 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. > 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 ... 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 >