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