> From: henning.westerholt@1und1.de
> To: sr-users@lists.sip-router.org
> Subject: Re: [SR-Users] kamailio fails to start with kamctl start
> Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 18:19:10 +0200
> CC: fborot@hotmail.com
>
> On Monday 27 June 2011, Fabian Borot wrote:
> > I fixed the problem but I would like somebody to shed some light into this
> > issue.
> >
> > I noticed that when I run kamailio w/o telling where to load the
> > kamailio.cfg file is when it failed. So I went to the kamctl script and
> > notice that in the section where "kamctl start" happens the variable
> > $STARTOPTIONS was empty. I went to the etc/kamailio/kamctlrc, un-commented
> > the line with $STARTOPTIONS and made it like this:
> >
> >
> > STARTOPTIONS=" -f /usr/local/kamailio-3.1/etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg" ->
> > this points to the config file which is in a custom path
> >
> > So, it seems that when one installs kamailio in a directory other than the
> > default path with the prefix option ['make prefix="new path here" all' and
> > 'make prefix="new path here" install'] you have to explicitly tell it
> > somehow to load the config file from somewhere else. Or I did not do it
> > correctly. Can somebody please confirm?. I thought that the initialization
> > scripts would also take care of that. I have installed kamailio 1.4.3
> > 1.5.0, 1.5.2 using the prefix option at 'make' time several times and
> > never had this issue.
>
> Hi Fabian,
>
> I've just tested it in master branch and could reproduce it. It seems the
> kamctl command misses a variable inclusion in the start cmd. Not sure why it
> worked in 1.5 and earlier, did not tried it.
>
> Can you please try the attached patch for the kamctl in your checkout? If you
> don't want to compile and install again, you could also do the changes in the
> installed version manually.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Henning