[Jack-Devel] How to use jackd as a 'system-wide' server?

[Thomas Brand]

On Wed, May 9, 2018 17:00, Chris Caudle wrote:
> On Wed, May 9, 2018 4:16 am, Christophe Lohr wrote:
>
>> I plan to use the Jack plugin for the Asterisk PBX
>>
>
>> Since Asterisk is started as a daemon by systemd, I guess that I should
>>  also start Jackd as a system-wide server, and not within a user
>> graphical session.
>
> What user account is used for the asterisk server?  Probably jackd should
>  be started under the same user.
>
>> In such a case, jackd does not rely on dbus, isn't it?
>>
>
> You may need to compile jackd yourself, I think many distributions which
> ship jack2 enable dbus support in the build shipped by the distribution.
> There was a thread on the mailing list in the past where someone posted a
>  way to "fake" some of the dbus information required to get jackd with
> dbus support running without a graphical session started, you could search
> for that, but probably just compiling without dbus support enabled would
> be more straight forward.
>

It's all in the manpage.. search for $JACK_NO_AUDIO_RESERVATION and
$JACK_PROMISCUOUS_SERVER respectively.

Greetings