I’m running asterisk 16 on Fedora 31. If I start asterisk as user asterisk, all goes well. But if I start asterisk from systemd:

asterisk[1411]: [Jan 21 19:36:47] ERROR[1411]: res_sorcery_config.c:320
sorcery_config_internal_load: Unable to load config file ‘pjsip.conf’
Jan 21 19:36:47 asterisk.riverside asterisk[1411]: [Jan 21 19:36:47]
ERROR[1411]: config_options.c:710 aco_process_config: Unable to load config file ‘confbridge.conf’
asterisk[1411]: [Jan 21 19:36:47] ERROR[1411]: app_confbridge.c:4351
load_module: Unable to load config. Not loading module. asterisk[1411]: [Jan 21 19:36:47] WARNING[1411]: loader.c:2381
load_modules: Some non-required modules failed to load. asterisk[1411]: [Jan 21 19:36:47] ERROR[1411]: loader.c:2396
load_modules: res_stun_monitor declined to load. asterisk[1411]: [Jan 21 19:36:47] ERROR[1411]: loader.c:2396
load_modules: res_xmpp declined to load. asterisk[1411]: [Jan 21 19:36:47] ERROR[1411]: loader.c:2396
load_modules: Declined modules which depend on res_xmpp: chan_motif asterisk[1411]: [Jan 21 19:36:47] ERROR[1411]: loader.c:2396
load_modules: chan_iax2 declined to load. asterisk[1411]: [Jan 21 19:36:47] ERROR[1411]: loader.c:2396
load_modules: app_confbridge declined to load.

It seems to be a permission problem:

module load res_xmpp.so Unable to load module res_xmpp.so Command ‘module load res_xmpp.so’ failed.
== Parsing ‘/etc/asterisk/xmpp.conf’: Not found (Permission denied)

module load res_stun_monitor.so Unable to load module res_stun_monitor.so Command ‘module load res_stun_monitor.so’ failed.
== Parsing ‘/etc/asterisk/res_stun_monitor.conf’: Not found
(Permission denied)

module load chan_iax2.so Unable to load module chan_iax2.so Command ‘module load chan_iax2.so’ failed.
== Parsing ‘/etc/asterisk/iax.conf’: Not found (Permission denied)

But the files are all there, with appropriate permissions (I think) :

ls -l /etc/asterisk | grep ‘xmpp\|monitor\|iax\|confbridge’
-rw-r–r–. 1 asterisk asterisk 23674 Dec 12 19:54 confbridge.conf
-rw-r–r–. 1 asterisk asterisk 1250 Dec 12 19:54 iax.conf
-rw-r–r–. 1 asterisk asterisk 2401 Dec 19 18:30 iaxprov.conf
-rw-r–r–. 1 asterisk asterisk 1403 Dec 12 19:54 res_stun_monitor.conf
-rw-r–r–. 1 asterisk asterisk 2728 Dec 12 19:55 xmpp.conf

cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/asterisk.service | grep -v ‘#’
[Unit]
Description=Asterisk PBX and telephony daemon. After=nss-lookup.target

[Service]
Type=simple Environment=HOME=/var/lib/asterisk WorkingDirectory=/var/lib/asterisk User=asterisk Group=asterisk ExecStart=/usr/sbin/asterisk -f -C /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf ExecStop=/usr/sbin/asterisk -rx ‘core stop now’
ExecReload=/usr/sbin/asterisk -rx ‘core reload’

PrivateTmp=true

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

So why would starting asterisk as user asterisk work, but fail using systemd ?

Any help appreciated.

sean

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