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Summary:ASTERISK-20851: Asterisk user/group flags ignored by daemon function in /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
Reporter:Sverre G (sverre)Labels:
Date Opened:2013-01-01 23:01:08.000-0600Date Closed:
Priority:MajorRegression?
Status:Open/NewComponents:Contrib/General
Versions:10.8.0-digiumphones 13.18.4 Frequency of
Occurrence		Constant
Related
Issues:
Environment:CentOS release 6.3Attachments:
Description:Starting asterisk using:

$ /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk -U asterisk -G asterisk -c

And asterisk correctly starts with the user asterisk:

$ ps aux | grep asterisk
root      9448  0.0  0.0 106092   672 pts/0    S    15:53   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk -U asterisk -G asterisk -c
asterisk  9450  1.6  2.6 1151832 27520 pts/0   Sl   15:53   0:00 /usr/sbin/asterisk -f -U asterisk -G asterisk -c -vvvg -c
root      9495  0.0  0.0 103244   828 pts/0    S+   15:53   0:00 grep asterisk

But start asterisk using the daemon function (called by /etc/init.d/rc.d/asterisk) and the -U and -G flag is ignored:

$ . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
$ daemon sh -c "/usr/sbin/safe_asterisk -U asterisk -G asterisk -c"
                                            [  OK  ]
$ ps aux | grep asterisk
root      9510  0.0  0.0 106092   676 pts/0    S    15:55   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk
root      9512  4.6  2.6 1151884 27316 pts/0   Sl   15:55   0:00 /usr/sbin/asterisk -f -vvvg -c
root      9556  0.0  0.0 103244   832 pts/0    S+   15:55   0:00 grep asterisk
Comments:By: Sverre G (sverre) 2013-01-02 17:38:37.387-0600

Further info: Commenting out COLOR=yes in /etc/sysconfig/asterisk works around the problem, most likely because the syntax passed to the daemon function in /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions are different. Note that when color is NOT used, there's no additional sh -c when it's called.

if [ "x$COLOR" = "xyes" ]; then
export TERM=linux
daemon sh -c "$DAEMON $ASTARGS -c" >/dev/null </dev/null 2>&1 &
else
daemon $DAEMON $ASTARGS
fi
By: Sverre G (sverre) 2013-01-02 21:14:49.360-0600

Also note that if you leave /etc/sysconfig/asterisk alone (don't change the AST_USER or AST_GROUP variables, and leave COLOR=yes all as the defaults), and instead put the user in /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf - all starts up with the correct user.

Maybe AST_USER and AST_GROUP are depreciated and should be removed entirely?