when starting from the "sbin" directory it uses this as default: "/var/run/kamailio.pid"...I changed it to "PID_FILE=/var/run/kamailio/kamailio.pid" and it works fine as well the PID_FILE in the " /etc/init.d/kamailio" file is also that one: " PID_FILE=/var/run/kamailio/kamailio.pid" and that folder has all permissions. I can still use it w/o the service script but it would be nice to have it be working properly ________________________________ From: Fabian Borot <fborot(a)hotmail.com> Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2016 9:54 AM To: sr-users(a)lists.sip-router.org Subject: Re: Kamailio 4.4 wont start on CentOS 7 using script thank you, yes, I did have to change these lines according to my install path , these are my settings: KAM=/usr/local/kamailio-4.4/sbin/kamailio KAMCFG=/usr/local/kamailio-4.4/etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg PROG=kamailio PID_FILE=/var/run/kamailio.pid LOCK_FILE=/var/lock/subsys/kamailio RETVAL=0 DEFAULTS=/etc/default/kamailio the directory is created: [root@ar-mia-proxy-01 ~]# ls -la /var/run/kamailio/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 40 Aug 4 15:18 . drwxr-xr-x. 23 root root 640 Aug 4 15:18 .. [root@ar-mia-proxy-01 ~]# I am using the "root" user so it has access to it ________________________________ From: Fabian Borot <fborot(a)hotmail.com> Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2016 9:30 AM To: sr-users(a)lists.sip-router.org Subject: Kamailio 4.4 wont start on CentOS 7 using script Hello I installed/compiled version 4.4 on CentOS 7. When I start the server like this: "./kamctl start" it works but when I try to use the script: "/etc/init.d/kamailio" it fails [root@ar-mia-proxy-01 sbin]# /etc/init.d/kamailio start Starting kamailio (via systemctl): Job for kamailio.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status kamailio.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. [FAILED] [root@ar-mia-proxy-01 sbin]# when running the "status" I see this: [root@ar-mia-proxy-01 sbin]# /etc/init.d/kamailio status â kamailio.service - LSB: Kamailio (OpenSER) - the Open Source SIP Server Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/kamailio) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2016-08-04 15:25:59 GMT; 14s ago Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8) Process: 5556 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/kamailio start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Aug 04 15:25:59 ar-mia-proxy-01.dom.com systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Kamailio (OpenSER) - the Open Source SIP Server... Aug 04 15:25:59 ar-mia-proxy-01.dom.com kamailio[5556]: Starting kamailio: Aug 04 15:25:59 ar-mia-proxy-01.dom.com systemd[1]: kamailio.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1 Aug 04 15:25:59 ar-mia-proxy-01.dom.com systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Kamailio (OpenSER) - the Open Source SIP Server. Aug 04 15:25:59 ar-mia-proxy-01.dom.com systemd[1]: Unit kamailio.service entered failed state. Aug 04 15:25:59 ar-mia-proxy-01.dom.com systemd[1]: kamailio.service failed. [root@ar-mia-proxy-01 sbin]# I welcome all ideas, thank you in advance