[Asterisk-Users] res_motv: Request for Comment

[Eric Wieling]

It might be nice if safe_asterisk (or some part of asterisk) e-mailed a
backtrace of the last asterisk .core file to Digium so they can see what
causes Asterisk to core dump.  I've not had asterisk crash in that way,
but it might be nice for Digium.

> On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Mark Spencer wrote:
> 
> > I've been considering the nature of Asterisk, its security, the bug
> > tracker, and more...  And i've come up with an interesting idea: A
> > "message of the version".  The idea is that Asterisk has a compile time
> > 32-bit unsigned int version which is incremented whenever some major new
> > bug is fixed.  When Asterisk starts up (and periodically, maybe once per
> > day), it sends a packet with the version number to a server at Digium,
> > along with a message level (INFO,MINOR,MAJOR,CRITICAL) and the Digium
> > server replies (if it receives the packet, if not, it might get sent again
> > in a day) with any INFO, MINOR, MAJOR, or CRITICAL messages which are
> > associated with that version of the code.  In this way, an asterisk
> > administrator could easily see if there were any major issues, critical
> > security updates, etc, that his system might need to be updated for.

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