[asterisk-users] Summary of "Trixbox vs. custom install"

John McCollough john at lannetwork.com
Mon Feb 19 07:18:51 MST 2007


 
>From what I've found, if you modify the normal config files, then they
will stay until the next time you update your server.  When you update
your server, they get restored back to the origional, packaged state.
It's best to stick to the _custom files as much as possible.

John McCollough
LAN Network Connections, Inc
(603)622-8557
 

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Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Summary of "Trixbox vs. custom install"

> I also include a consideration from mine: I would happily use Trixbox,

> because I did FreePBX setup once and it was a real pain, but I'm very 
> frightened by a few issues:
>
> 1) Trixbox "Macho" installation that installs everything without 
> asking. I, for example, would like to use software RAID (maybe it's 
> wrong with Asterisk, but I want to do it!). I wouldn't like doing it 
> manually after Trixbox installation. I would like to have an installer

> doing it for me. Centos (ex redhat) installer does it, so why Trixbox 
> choose to install everything without prompting?
You can just install CentOS with RAID and whatever you want, then use
the Trixbox tar package instead of the ISO. Still, why on earth did the
Trixbox team didn't leave the option of doing a custom install with the
ISO ?

> 2) How easy it is to find Trixbox SRPMS?  Is it possible to compile 
> new software (i.e. Asterisk or FreePBX, etc..) on Trixbox without 
> having to rewrite all the configuration files, changing all paths, all

> permissions, and so on...
You can update Asterisk/zaptel/whatever by just downloading the source
and compiling it. My home system was installed with A at home on version
0.8 (if memory serves me right) and I upgraded Asterisk and Zaptel to
version 1.0.10 by downloading and compiling. I know, this is a really
old version and I should upgrade, but hey, it is doing everything I need
and it is stable (uptime of 315 days).

IMHO, Trixbox can me customized alot, but you need to know where and
what to modify. I believe that if you know enough about how Asterisk
work, you can get around Trixbox limitations. One thing to remember is
that the files you can modify are the _custom.conf files. Never touch
the _additional.conf files, they will get overwritten next time you
click "Apply changes" in the GUI. The normal base files (sip.conf.
iax.conf, etc) can be modified since the GUI doesn't touch them.

But I also think that there is nothing that can beat a plain install as
far as customization go. YMMV
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