asterisk users - Jan 2005 - What is the best and easiest flavor to be usedwith Asterisk.

Almost any distro will do, since 2.6 kenels are bleeding edge you might
have to spend more time getting everything working, and in most cases
you are best served by determining which distro your hardware
manufacturer supports, Dell typically supports only redhat, HP supports
suse on many boxes. While there are workarounds, having the hardware
manufacturer deal with driver issues is a bonus.

 

The problem you are having with your "physical line" probably has
little
or nothing to do with which distro you are using, RH 8.0 works fine.

 

Just a wild guess, but are you using a Digium Wildcard?

 

Maybe you should work on the real problem, which is assumed to be that
your TDM interface is not happy in your computer. Changing distros is
not likely to fix that.

 

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Imran
Sadiq
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 8:58 PM
To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] What is the best and easiest flavor to be
usedwith Asterisk.

 

Could anyone please advise me on the best flavor of Linux on which
Asterisk is easiest to install.

 

I am currently using RH8.0, everything over the IP works fine but when I
want to call a physical line I can only have conversation for about 3
sec and everything freezes after that.

 

I have to hard reset the machine to bring it back up. Any suggestions
will be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

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/SNIP/
I like Fedora Core 1 if for no other reason than I am used to redhat
distributions. Also you can grab RPMS from
ftp://ftp.linuxsys.com/pub/releases/FC1 for an easy installation. 

The only caveat I know of with these packages is that something has
changed in Asterisk recently where it is not happy running as user
"asterisk" which is what my packaging intends to do. Until I have time
to figure this out, I recommend that you edit line 26 in
/etc/init.d/asterisk and remove "--user asterisk" the line reads:

/SNIP/

Never ever use Fedora if you want to use it for production. Not Fedora
Core 1 ever, when the current version is Fedora Core 3. My experience
with Fedora Core is not good.

Seshu Kanuri 
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Personally I am a debian fan.  For my asterisk server all I did was
minimal install then apt-get install asterisk.

I have a quite a few Debian servers in production and have very few
problems.

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 10:04, Kanuri, Seshu (Company IT)
wrote:
> /SNIP/
> I like Fedora Core 1 if for no other reason than I am used to redhat
> distributions. Also you can grab RPMS from
> ftp://ftp.linuxsys.com/pub/releases/FC1 for an easy installation. 
> 
> The only caveat I know of with these packages is that something has
> changed in Asterisk recently where it is not happy running as user
> "asterisk" which is what my packaging intends to do. Until I have
time
> to figure this out, I recommend that you edit line 26 in
> /etc/init.d/asterisk and remove "--user asterisk" the line reads:
> 
> /SNIP/
> 
> Never ever use Fedora if you want to use it for production. Not Fedora
> Core 1 ever, when the current version is Fedora Core 3. My experience
> with Fedora Core is not good.
> 
> Seshu Kanuri 
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On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 Craig Guy wrote:
> Is that a CVS-head thing?  I have setup 1.0.3 today running as non-root
> asterisk user on FC2 no problems.
I honestly dont know yet. I had a problem where the system would boot and
run fine for a few hours then the logs would fill up with unable to read
such and such. SIP UDP packets would queue up and never be delivered.
Crazy stuff that should not happen. Details are sketchy but the fix was to
run as root. 

Perhaps it is in the packaging of my RPMS? Well, I'm planning to look into
it thoroughly in the next few days. Whatever happened, non-root used to
work here and now it doesn't.

If anyone using my RPMS has any feedback please email me offlist.

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