[Asterisk-Users] CVS Update Frequency

[Steven Critchfield]

On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 10:16, Mark Messmore, Technical Support,
University Telcom Inc. wrote:
> Just as a matter of curiosity...how often do most of you update your *
> installation from the CVS?  

What does it say about your technical knowledge if you don't do the
minor things such as properly start a new thread?

I tend to update production machines only when there is problems or
features that require them. That being said, I have our core phone
switch stuck on an older version of asterisk as it does nothing more
than route calls around and doesn't need special features. It takes all
our inbound calls from our PRI and drops them on our T1 channel bank,
redirects some back to the PRI, and the rest go via IAX2 to 2-3 other
asterisk machines.

phone:/home/critch# w  
 10:49:14 up 134 days, 21:17,  2 users,  load average: 0.06, 0.06, 0.01
USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
critch   pts/1    steven.basesys.c 10:49    0.00s  0.04s  0.04s sshd: critch [p
phone:/home/critch# asterisk -r
Asterisk CVS-10/22/03-06:38:52, Copyright (C) 1999-2001 Linux Support Services, Inc.
Written by Mark Spencer <markster at linux-support.net>
=========================================================================
Connected to Asterisk CVS-10/22/03-06:38:52 currently running on phone (pid = 24942)
phone*CLI> show uptime 
System uptime: 10 weeks, 4 days, 10 hours, 40 minutes, 39 seconds
Last reload: 3 days, 25 minutes, 41 seconds

I have not updated our office switch since the loss of the original
voicemail system due to not wanting to remake the voicemail configs. 
 10:55:23 up 97 days, 14:41,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.04
USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
critch   pts/0    steven.basesys.c 10:55    0.00s  0.04s  0.02s w
pbx:/home/critch# asterisk -r
Asterisk CVS-10/31/03-13:16:40, Copyright (C) 1999-2001 Linux Support Services, Inc.
Written by Mark Spencer <markster at linux-support.net>
=========================================================================
Connected to Asterisk CVS-10/31/03-13:16:40 currently running on pbx (pid = 22802)
pbx*CLI> show uptime 
System uptime: 13 weeks, 2 days, 21 hours, 24 minutes, 8 seconds
Last reload: 5 weeks, 5 days, 23 hours, 38 minutes, 14 seconds

Our other main asterisk machine just had a hard lock up over the
weekend, and we have replacement hardware enroute to us now that should
get here early next week. At that point I will be hard pressed to go
with current CVS when I haven't been testing more recent versions when I
know the versions I have have long uptime records. 

-- 
Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>