When I run asterisk -r from command line, below is the dump,
$ asterisk -r
Unable to connect to remote asterisk (does /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl exist?)
and confirmed no files are under /var/run/asterisk/ directory.
If I perform sudo su && fwconsole stop && fwconsole chown && fwconsole start then I can observe FreePBX properly. (Red warning message disappear from GUI)
Just wondering why the recommended script is not working.
Any advice would be appreciated!
will not work unless your webserver is also running as root and that6 is a VERY, VERY bad idea
FreePBX needs asterisk to run as the same user as your webserver as and ‘root’ will spawn endless complaints and inability to use the FreePBX interface.
If you don’t understand systemd and FreePBX, please don’t be ‘clever’
Hi Dicko,
Thanks for your comment. I actually tried User=asterisk but I’ll get an error as below. (I ran it again with User=asterisk) For some reason, my system tells You need to be root to run this command.
If I don’t explicitly define User, asterisk won’t start, and if I define User=root the problem disappear away.
# systemctl status -l freepbx
● freepbx.service - FreePBX VoIP Server
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/freepbx.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2018-06-28 06:16:57 CDT; 36s ago
Process: 1748 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/fwconsole start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 1748 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Jun 28 06:16:56 pbx systemd[1]: Starting FreePBX VoIP Server…
Jun 28 06:16:57 pbx fwconsole[1748]: You need to be root to run this command
Jun 28 06:16:57 pbx systemd[1]: freepbx.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jun 28 06:16:57 pbx systemd[1]: Failed to start FreePBX VoIP Server.
Jun 28 06:16:57 pbx systemd[1]: Unit freepbx.service entered failed state.
Jun 28 06:16:57 pbx systemd[1]: freepbx.service failed.
Below is the systemctl status dump, it looks to me both asterisk and FreePBX are brought up safely.
# systemctl status -l freepbx
● freepbx.service - FreePBX VoIP Server
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/freepbx.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (exited) since Thu 2018-06-28 06:37:43 CDT; 6min ago
Process: 1706 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/fwconsole start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 1706 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CGroup: /system.slice/freepbx.service
├─1809 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk -U asterisk -G asterisk
├─1813 /usr/sbin/asterisk -f -U asterisk -G asterisk -vvvg -c
├─1904 PM2 v2.10.1: God Daemon (/opt/app/home/asterisk/.pm2)
└─1954 node /var/www/html/admin/modules/ucp/node/index.js
Jun 28 06:37:42 pbx runuser[1944]: pam_unix(runuser:session): session opened for user asterisk by (uid=0)
Jun 28 06:37:42 pbx runuser[1962]: pam_unix(runuser:session): session opened for user asterisk by (uid=0)
Jun 28 06:37:42 pbx runuser[1980]: pam_unix(runuser:session): session opened for user asterisk by (uid=0)
Jun 28 06:37:42 pbx runuser[1980]: pam_unix(runuser:session): session closed for user asterisk
Jun 28 06:37:42 pbx fwconsole[1706]: [>---------------------------] < 1 sec
Jun 28 06:37:42 pbx runuser[1990]: pam_unix(runuser:session): session opened for user asterisk by (uid=0)
Jun 28 06:37:42 pbx runuser[2000]: pam_unix(runuser:session): session opened for user asterisk by (uid=0)
Jun 28 06:37:43 pbx runuser[2000]: pam_unix(runuser:session): session closed for user asterisk
Jun 28 06:37:43 pbx fwconsole[1706]: Started UCP Node Server. PID is 1954
Jun 28 06:37:43 pbx systemd[1]: Started FreePBX VoIP Server.
