I've been working with Asterisk for about 2 months now and am doing well. However I decided to switch platforms from Fedora Core 1, that my predacessor was using, to Gentoo, for obvious reasons. It just seems faster and less "bloated" everything I need, nothing I don't.
Anyways, I've read what the Wiki had to say about it and I was only confused on one thing, putting ALSA in my USE statement. It's a 1U server with no Sound Card. I did not choose to put ALSA in my USE flags as I don't have a sound card. But will Asterisk suffer in any way? I know that Asterisk is fully capable of running on a machine with No Sound card, my Fedora servers have no sound card, but by ommitting "alsa" in my USE flags, will Asterisk be compiled in a way that would make it less functional?
No. There is no problem installing or running it with USE="-alsa".
My last question, sorry guys (and girls), is about the grsecurity in the 2.4 kernel (I chose 2.4 instead of 2.6). I set it to "low" for now, as it said it wouldn't cause any compatibility issues with 99% of the programs. Has anybody tried medium, or even high, with Asterisk? How secure can you get the kernel without interfering with Asterisk.
Yes, I use asterisk with grsec on "high". No problems.
This is just more of a comment, but if anybody see's anything wrong with it I'd like to know. I don't want to use the 0.9.0 ebuild (but I emerged it just to get the dependencies taken care of) so I emerge'd the CVS program so that I can upgrade libpri/zaptel/asterisk from 0.9.0 to the latest. The The Wiki mentions something about CVS and points to: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33345 but that link is dead. I figured I'd just CVS Asterisk the normal way, do the make install and it should upgrade it.
I don't use the portage ebuild for Asterisk, so I don't really know. However, after a brief look at the ebuild, it looks like everything is in the right place. To be sure, though, I would 'emerge unmerge asterisk zaptel libpri' and install these fresh using the normal configure/make/make install methods from the CVS sources.
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