Thank you for respondingi figured out that simpleusb was not loading.After i fixed that all is good. thank you Chris From: Steve Zingman <szingman@msgstor.com> To: C B <harvard5362@yahoo.com>; "app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org" <app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org> Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2016 3:34 AM Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] New Dial installation asterisk is not running Chris, Sorry for the delay, you message went to a different folder on my mail client. Could you post the last 10 lines or so of of /var/log/asterisk/messages. You could also run asterisk -vcd and copy the console output to the e-mail. 73, Steve N4IRS On 07/14/2016 06:35 PM, C B wrote: Sorry if this question has been answered before i did look and could not find the answer. just built a all star node using Dial it is on a HP 5700. it appears that asterisk is not running when i type asterisk -r at the CLI it responds with Unable to connect to remote asterisk (does /var/run/asterisk.ctl exist?) if i type asterisk at the CLI then type asterisk -r asterisk runs for short time and responds with Disconnected from Asterisk server any help greatly appreciated. Chris _______________________________________________ App_rpt-users mailing list App_rpt-users@ohnosec.org http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users To unsubscribe from this list please visit http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users and scroll down to the bottom of the page. Enter your email address and press the "Unsubscribe or edit options button" You do not need a password to unsubscribe, you can do it via email confirmation. If you have trouble unsubscribing, please send a message to the list detailing the problem. -- "Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about." 1st Law of Logic