Answering some questions... On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 10:28:13AM +1100, David Uzzell wrote: > Michael Graves wrote: > >On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:09:26 +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > > > > > >>Alex Brecher wrote: > >> > >>>Which Distro is the most commonly used distro with Asterisk please ? > >> > >>I don't know which is most commonly used, but I can tell you which is > >>the easiest to install if you're going to install the OS from scratch > >>anyway and plan to use it with Asterisk: > >> > >>"Xorcom Rapid is a Debian/Asterisk distribution program that includes an > >>auto-install and special auto-configuration features. It quickly and > >>effortlessly converts any PC to a functioning Asterisk PBX..." > > > > > >Since I had to rebuild my * server over the weekend I had a go with > >this Xorcom thingy. It pretty much did as it promised, with minimal > >user interaction it created a working * installation with a handy text > >mode shell. However, being a Linux newbie I found that it lacked a few > >basic things that I needed to make it work for me...most significantly > >the ability to use SSH to connect from my desktop transfer config files > >and otherwise and administer *.
You could have installed the "ssh" package. (or install netcat and pipe over nc, if that is your favourite transfer mode). Included in the CD. > > Had I been able to do that I would > >probably have tried it out for a while. > > > >Oh, also the version of * it installed was quite old...CVS 5/11/04 if I > >recall. That was also a major concern. > > This is the only thing that worried me. And now from what I have been > able to find is that there are limited to none development software on > the install. I was hopeful that there would have been enough development > software installed so that I could run an Upgrade :( which there appears > not to be!. Install a second rapid machine. Run 'apt-setup' to set up standard Debian software sources in addition to your existing ones. Now you should have a build machine. Alternatively: install Debian Sarge and add: deb http://updates.xorcom.com/rapid sarge main deb-src http://updates.xorcom.com/rapid sarge main to your sources.list . This should generally give you a build machine. Adding a decent build environment would take too much place, and it will still won't be good enough, because for each user there will be "just one package" missing. > > > So as you I think I will be rebuilding the server again :( I need to > ability to be able to update the * versions as bugs are fixed and > features are added. We currently provide packages. OTOH, we try not to drift too far away from Debian. We don't want to waste too much time on replicating Debian features. > > It is a Great start and will allow newbies to get started with little > problem but i can see it being an issue with the mailling list being > users asking questions about out of date CVS versions which may well > have the bugs fixed. And it indeed gets better: Next version has a decent version of Asterisk, *and* a much better default configuration, including and configuration of detection of (some) zaptel cards at install time. I would like software to work out of the box as well as possible. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
