[sr-dev] Install scripts and /var/run/kamailio

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

On 01/10/15 15:43, Olle E. Johansson wrote:
>> On 14 Sep 2015, at 23:26, Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The situation is quite annoying sometimes even for me, I was thinking of
>> ways to make it more convenient when installing sources and starting
>> with a command line or running from source tree as I do most of the time.
>>
>> The /var/run/kamailio is not created by debian installation process,
>> because /var/run is temporary and content deleted on each restart. It
>> was like that but changed when discovered, because even installed from
>> deb, after the restart of the system, kamailio won't start. Same happens
>> if done with 'make install', it will work up to next system restart.
>>
>> Right now the /var/run/kamailio is created by the init.d script
>> /etc/init.d/kamailio, which seems to be the common across other linux
>> daemons.
>>
>> On debian, the init.d script can be deployed and /var/run/kamailio/
>> created by running:
>>
>> make install-initd-debian
>>
>> There is an alternative for centos:
>>
>> make install-initd-centos
>>
>> Just noticed it doesn't create the folder, patch will follow (although
>> it might be created by user add command).
>>
>> I will add a dedicated Makefile target to create the folder, but a
>> complete procedure will require adding the user and changing the owner
>> of the folder, if kamailio is started under that specific user.
>>
>> Among ideas I played with:
>>
>> - create the folder from kamailio source at startup, if it doesn't
>> exist and enough privileges -- this will require to start kamailio
>> initially as root
> If we depend on it we should definitely create it unless already created.

A patch was pushed this week already and backported to 4.3.

Cheers,
Daniel

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