chan_capi in a jail

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Wednesday 14 December 2011 10:07:48 Paul Schenkeveld wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 04:34:07PM +0100, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> > On Tuesday 13 December 2011 11:34:06 Paul Schenkeveld wrote:
> > > Hi Hans Petter,
> > > 
> > > I'd like to run my asterisk pbx inside a jail but it appears that the
> > > capi driver refuses to respond to jailed processes.  I have made
> > > /dev/capi* visible inside the jail (and for test I made all of /dev
> > > 
> > > visible) but chan_capi responds with:
> > >   [Dec 13 02:58:47] WARNING[49242] chan_capi.c: The CAPI device is not
> > > 
> > > present or accessible! [Dec 13 02:58:47] WARNING[49242] chan_capi.c:
> > > CAPI is disabled!
> > > 
> > > Using 'capitest -d 255 -i <mynum> -o <mynum>' outside the jail I can
> > > call my own number and hear the phone ring, the same command run
> > > inside a jail
> > > 
> > > terminates with:
> > >   CAPI 2.0 not installed! Or insufficient access rights.
> > > 
> > > Using 8.2p4 and freshly downloaded i4b and chan_capi here.
> > > 
> > > Any suggestions appreciated.
> > 
> > Is this the SVN version of i4b + chan_capi. I recently removed delegate
> > support.
> 
> I used the instructions from http://www.selasky.org/hans_petter/isdn4bsd/:
> 
>   fetch
> http://www.turbocat.net/~hselasky/isdn4bsd/releases/FreeBSD/1_7_4/Makefile
> fetch
> http://www.turbocat.net/~hselasky/isdn4bsd/releases/FreeBSD/1_7_4/Makefile
> .v1 fetch
> http://www.turbocat.net/~hselasky/isdn4bsd/releases/FreeBSD/1_7_4/Makefile
> .v2 fetch
> http://www.turbocat.net/~hselasky/isdn4bsd/releases/FreeBSD/1_7_4/new_ihfc
> _1_7_4.tar.bz2 fetch
> http://www.turbocat.net/~hselasky/isdn4bsd/releases/FreeBSD/1_7_4/new_ihfc
> _1_7_4.diff.bz2
> 
> > See keyword delegate in isdnconfig manual page.
> > 
> > Before: use isdnconfig delegate XXX:YYY
> > New: use chown XXX:YYY /dev/capi
> 
> I wasn't aware of delegation thru isdnconfig, never needed it when I built
> my previous PBX with Asterisk 1.2 on FreeBSD 6.2.  After adding isdnconfig
> to the jail startup, asterisk now sees the CAPI driver.  I'll connect it
> to the ISDN line on saturday and see how it works.
> 

Reminds me I need to make a new I4B tarball soon :-)

--HPS