[Asterisk-Dev] FYI: RPM

[Greg Boehnlein]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> --On Wednesday, March 30, 2005 2:36 PM -0500 Greg Boehnlein 
> <damin at nacs.net> wrote:
> 
> > 	When you are happy with your updates, please get me the SRPM file
> > and I'll give it a once over, and build on the same target platforms as
> > the other RPMS that I've used. Thanks for updating and contributing!
> 
> Will do. The initial cut is looking good, but I want to set it up to run as 
> a mortal, by creating user "asterisk" and assigning him ownership of the 
> writable files and config directory.

Good from a security perspective. You may also want to build a patch for 
the /etc/rc.d/init.d/asterisk file (look in 
/usr/src/asterisk/contrib/init.d/rc.redhat.asterisk) that sets the proper 
User/Group settings.

# Uncomment the following and set them to the user/groups that you
# want to run Asterisk as. NOTE: this requires substantial work to
# be sure that Asterisk's environment has permission to write the
# files required  for  its  operation, including logs, its comm
# socket, the asterisk database, etc.
#AST_USER="asterisk"
#AST_GROUP="asterisk"

> Do you recall why zapata and libpri were BuildReq's in 1.0? Did the linkage 
> change since then so that they're truly no longer prereqs?

I believe that when that was built, they were pre-requisites.. However, 
that may be a carry over from Tom's original setups. Feel free to update 
it to your world-view! :)

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