Re: [vserver] Asterisk in guest

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 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.

\\||/
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