so I did a bad thing. chmod -R 777 /var and chmod -R 777 /
I now have root access again by logging into single user mode and setting the correct permissions for the Home, usr, root, etc, and var directories
I do not have remote SSH or FTP access, and the system is not recording, even tho i did chown -R asterisk /var/spool/asterisk and chmod -R 777 /var/spool/asterisk
any help would be appreciated
correction there are recordings from today in the /var/spool/monitor/ directory -in.wav and -out.wav files, but they are not moving to monitorDONE/ORIG or monitorDONE/MP3