Bug#500294: Should not put .asterisk_history in the root home directory

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 01:43:47PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:

> Sadly this not entirely true.  It's the stop action of init.d script
> which creates .asterisk_history.

And this is because the stop script runs:

  asterisk -rx 'stop now'

This is not the asterisk daemon (verified with strace that this is the
process that generates the file).

Some other interesting points:

1.

  asterisk -U asterisk -c

does try to open /root/.asterisk_history . I guess $HOME is not properly
set. Tested on Debian's packlage and on recent upstream trunk. The
result is permission denied, though.

2. asterisk -rx has no need to open the history file, as it does not
write there.


So a silly workaround would be to use:  'asterisk -U asterisk -rx' . 
A better fix is not to initialize the terminal on 'asterisk -rx' .

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