I have recently installed Asterisk 1.8 on Centos 6.6 on a teste machine but when i type asterisk -r , i get error mesasge “Unable to connect to remote asterisk (does /var/run/asterisk.ctl exist?)”
cd /var/log/asterisk/messages below
[Apr 26 20:03:14] NOTICE[27559] cdr.c: CDR simple logging enabled.
[Apr 26 20:03:14] NOTICE[27559] loader.c: 187 modules will be loaded.
[Apr 26 20:03:14] NOTICE[27559] res_smdi.c: No SMDI interfaces are available to listen on, not starting SMDI listener.
[Apr 26 20:03:14] NOTICE[27559] chan_skinny.c: Configuring skinny from skinny.conf
[Apr 26 20:03:14] WARNING[27559] chan_dahdi.c: Ignoring any changes to ‘userbase’ (on reload) at line 23.
[Apr 26 20:03:14] WARNING[27559] chan_dahdi.c: Ignoring any changes to ‘vmsecret’ (on reload) at line 31.
[Apr 26 20:03:14] WARNING[27559] chan_dahdi.c: Ignoring any changes to ‘hassip’ (on reload) at line 35.
[Apr 26 20:03:14] WARNING[27559] chan_dahdi.c: Ignoring any changes to ‘hasiax’ (on reload) at line 39.
[Apr 26 20:03:14] WARNING[27559] chan_dahdi.c: Ignoring any changes to ‘hasmanager’ (on reload) at line 47.
[Apr 26 20:03:14] NOTICE[27559] pbx_ael.c: Starting AEL load process.
[Apr 26 20:03:14] NOTICE[27559] pbx_ael.c: AEL load process: parsed config file name ‘/etc/asterisk/extensions.ael’.
[Apr 26 20:03:14] NOTICE[27559] pbx_ael.c: AEL load process: checked config file name ‘/etc/asterisk/extensions.ael’.
[Apr 26 20:03:14] NOTICE[27559] pbx_ael.c: AEL load process: compiled config file name ‘/etc/asterisk/extensions.ael’.
[Apr 26 20:03:14] NOTICE[27559] pbx_ael.c: AEL load process: merged config file name ‘/etc/asterisk/extensions.ael’.
[Apr 26 20:03:14] NOTICE[27559] pbx_ael.c: AEL load process: verified config file name ‘/etc/asterisk/extensions.ael’.
[Apr 26 20:04:01] NOTICE[27627] cdr.c: CDR simple logging enabled.
[Apr 26 20:04:01] WARNING[27627] db.c: Unable to open Asterisk database ‘/var/lib/asterisk/astdb’: Permission denied
[Apr 26 20:04:01] NOTICE[27627] loader.c: 187 modules will be loaded.
[Apr 26 20:04:01] NOTICE[27627] res_smdi.c: No SMDI interfaces are available to listen on, not starting SMDI listener.
[Apr 26 20:04:01] WARNING[27627] res_musiconhold.c: No music on hold classes configured, disabling music on hold.
[Apr 26 20:04:01] NOTICE[27627] chan_skinny.c: Configuring skinny from skinny.conf
[Apr 26 20:04:01] WARNING[27627] chan_skinny.c: Failed to bind to 0.0.0.0:2000: Permission denied
[Apr 26 20:04:01] WARNING[27627] db.c: Unable to open Asterisk database ‘/var/lib/asterisk/astdb’: Permission denied
[Apr 26 20:04:01] WARNING[27627] chan_dahdi.c: Ignoring any changes to ‘userbase’ (on reload) at line 23.
[Apr 26 20:04:01] WARNING[27627] chan_dahdi.c: Ignoring any changes to ‘vmsecret’ (on reload) at line 31.
[Apr 26 20:04:01] WARNING[27627] chan_dahdi.c: Ignoring any changes to ‘hassip’ (on reload) at line 35.
[Apr 26 20:04:01] WARNING[27627] chan_dahdi.c: Ignoring any changes to ‘hasiax’ (on reload) at line 39.
[Apr 26 20:04:01] WARNING[27627] chan_dahdi.c: Ignoring any changes to ‘hasmanager’ (on reload) at line 47.
[Apr 26 20:04:01] WARNING[27627] db.c: Unable to open Asterisk database ‘/var/lib/asterisk/astdb’: Permission denied
[Apr 26 20:04:01] WARNING[27627] db.c: Database unavailable
[Apr 26 20:04:01] WARNING[27627] chan_unistim.c: Failed to bind to 0.0.0.0:5000: Permission denied
[Apr 26 20:04:01] NOTICE[27627] pbx_ael.c: Starting AEL load process.
[Apr 26 20:04:01] NOTICE[27627] pbx_ael.c: AEL load process: parsed config file name ‘/etc/asterisk/extensions.ael’.
[Apr 26 20:04:01] NOTICE[27627] pbx_ael.c: AEL load process: checked config file name ‘/etc/asterisk/extensions.ael’.
[Apr 26 20:04:01] NOTICE[27627] pbx_ael.c: AEL load process: compiled config file name ‘/etc/asterisk/extensions.ael’.
[Apr 26 20:04:01] NOTICE[27627] pbx_ael.c: AEL load process: merged config file name ‘/etc/asterisk/extensions.ael’.
[Apr 26 20:04:01] NOTICE[27627] pbx_ael.c: AEL load process: verified config file name ‘/etc/asterisk/extensions.ael’.
[Apr 26 20:04:01] WARNING[27627] db.c: Unable to open Asterisk database ‘/var/lib/asterisk/astdb’: Permission denied
[Apr 26 20:04:01] WARNING[27627] db.c: Database unavailable
[Apr 26 20:04:01] WARNING[27627] db.c: Unable to open Asterisk database ‘/var/lib/asterisk/astdb’: Permission denied