[SR-Users] SIP between IPv4 and IPv6 agents

[Henning Westerholt]

On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Komáromi Péter wrote:
> I'm on the way to install kamailio on my ubuntu pc.
> It's almost complete, but if I prompt the   /etc/init.d/kamailio start
> command, I receive a chown: invalid user: `kamailio:kamailio' message. I
> searched a lot after and tried to modify to other user, but can not find
> the right place to change this username.
> 
> Shouldn't I replace a valid user in the /etc/init.d/kamailio file in the
> places of asterisks? MEMORY=$((`echo $MEMORY | sed -e 's/[^0-9]//g'`))
> [ -z "$USER" ]  && USER=********
> [ -z "$GROUP" ] && GROUP=*******
> [ $MEMORY -le 0 ] && MEMORY=32
> 
> Or where should I modify? Maybe should I create somewhere this user?

Hi Komáromi,

running this cmd as root:

adduser --quiet --system --group --disabled-password \
--shell /bin/false --gecos "Kamailio SIP Server" \
--home /var/run/kamailio kamailio

(adapt the directories to your installation) should do the trick.

Viele Grüße,

Henning