Now that I found where the Asterisk configuration files are located (/usr/local/etc/asterisk/ thanks to the kind help of a few board members) I'm having issues trying to modify the configuration files. I went to /usr/local/etc/asterisk/sip.conf and tried to configure my SIP profiles but the file was read-only. I tried to issue a #chmod 777 sip.conf but that would not take. I got the response chmod: sip.conf: Read-only file system. I then tried to issue a #chmod 777 /usr/local/etc/asterisk/ which took but did not allow me to make changes to sip.conf still. I noticed that the configuration files here were pointing to the configuration files located in /tmp/tcloop/asterisk-1.8-samples/usr/local/etc/asterisk/ so I went to that directory and tried to change permissions as well but no luck in being able to modify sip.conf still (in both directories: /usr/local/etc/asterisk and /tmp/tcloop/asterisk-1.8-samples/usr/local/etc/asterisk/).
I then checked the filesystems with #cat /proc/mounts and noticed that there are 19 /dev/loopX filesystems starting with /dev/loop0 and ending with /dev/loop18. All of these are read-only as indicated by ro. The two related to Asterisk were /dev/loop15 and /dev/loop 16 and printed as follows:
#/dev/loop15 /tmp/tcloop/asterisk-1.8 squashfs ro, relatime 0 0
#/dev/loop16 /tmp/tcloop/asterisk-1.8-samples squashfs ro, relatime 0 0
So I tried to remount these as read/write using the following commands:
#mount -o remount,w /dev/loop15
#mount -o remount,w /dev/loop16
This did not change them from read-only to read/write. I reissued the commands with verbose options and got the following output:
mount: mount('dev/loop15' , '/tmp/tcloop/asterisk-1.8' , 'squashfs' ,0x00208021, 'w'):0
mount: mount('dev/loop16' , '/tmp/tcloop/asterisk-1.8-samples' , 'squashfs' ,0x00208021, 'w'):0
I'm not very well versed in Linux so I'm stumped at this point, but perhaps it has something to do with the loop devices? Any help to get these into a writable state will be MUCH appreciated. Thanks for taking the time to help out a TCL newbie