Asterisk Make config failing

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Greetings!

During the final steps of installing Asterisk (18.11.3) on a clean install of Centos Stream 9, I am running into a problem with make config:

[me@localhost asterisk-18.11.3]# make config
/bin/sh: line 7: /sbin/chkconfig: No such file or directory
make: *** [Makefile:898: config] Error 127
[me@localhost asterisk-18.11.3]#

Looking at Makefile, I confirmed it was looking for /sbin/chkconfig and that it in fact does not exist.

config:
@if [ -f /etc/redhat-release -o -f /etc/fedora-release ]; then
./build_tools/install_subst contrib/init.d/rc.redhat.asterisk “$(DESTDIR)/etc/rc.d/init.d/asterisk”;
if [ ! -f “$(DESTDIR)/etc/sysconfig/asterisk” ] ; then
$(INSTALL) -m 644 contrib/init.d/etc_default_asterisk “$(DESTDIR)/etc/sysconfig/asterisk” ;
fi ;
if [ -z “$(DESTDIR)” ] ; then
/sbin/chkconfig --add asterisk ;
fi ; \

Doing some research, it appears chkconfig was probably deprecated back around Centos 7 and replaced by systemctl.

I am in a bit over my head here. Any suggestions on how to proceed?

Thank you!

Don

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here is what I have in my install script for “rocky linux 8”
hope that helps

dnf -y install \
        cmake \
        dnf-plugins-core \
        git \
        gsl-devel \
        libedit-devel \
        libnsl2-devel \
        libpcap-devel \
        lksctp-tools-devel \
        mariadb-connector-odbc \
        ngrep \
        patch \
        policycoreutils \
        procps-ng \
        subscription-manager \
        systemd-devel \
        tcpdump
git clone -b 18.11.3 https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk.git
cd asterisk
contrib/scripts/install_prereq install
./configure --with-jansson-bundled --libdir=/usr/lib64
make menuselect.makeopts
menuselect/menuselect \
        --enable DONT_OPTIMIZE \
        --enable BETTER_BACKTRACES \
        --disable CORE-SOUNDS-EN-GSM \
        --disable BUILD_NATIVE
make
make install
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TheMark,

Thank you for your suggestion! Unfortunately, my problem is rooted in the last line of your script – make install. The commands for the config: option in Makefile (starting at line 898) appears to try to use the chkconfig command which is apparently deprecated. This results in the init scripts not being installed.

Don

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There are sample systemd unit files in the tree[1]. I have no experience with them, beyond knowing they exist.

[1] asterisk/contrib/systemd at master · asterisk/asterisk · GitHub

5

‘make config’ causes Asterisk to start automatically when the server boots up but is not required.
After boot up you can start Asterisk manually with ‘sudo asterisk’.

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In doing some clean-up to try to get thru this, I updated to Kernel 5.14 which has now caused a problem with making dahdi-linux. Going to create a new thread for that problem.

Don

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