[Asterisk-Users] GRSecurity and ALSA on a Gentoo Server

[Deon Rodden]

I've been working with Asterisk for about 2 months now and am doing 
well. However I decided to switch platforms from Fedora Core 1, that my 
predacessor was using, to Gentoo, for obvious reasons.  It just seems 
faster and less "bloated" everything I need, nothing I don't.

Anyways, I've read what the Wiki had to say about it and I was only 
confused on one thing, putting ALSA in my USE statement. It's a 1U 
server with no Sound Card. I did not choose to put ALSA in my USE flags 
as I don't have a sound card. But will Asterisk suffer in any way? I 
know that Asterisk is fully capable of running on a machine with No 
Sound card, my Fedora servers have no sound card, but by ommitting 
"alsa" in my USE flags, will Asterisk be compiled in a way that would 
make it less functional?

My last question, sorry guys (and girls), is about the grsecurity in the 
2.4 kernel (I chose 2.4 instead of 2.6). I set it to "low" for now, as 
it said it wouldn't cause any compatibility issues with 99% of the 
programs. Has anybody tried medium, or even high, with Asterisk? How 
secure can you get the kernel without interfering with Asterisk.


This is just more of a comment, but if anybody see's anything wrong with 
it I'd like to know. I don't want to use the 0.9.0 ebuild (but I emerged 
it just to get the dependencies taken care of) so I emerge'd the CVS 
program so that I can upgrade libpri/zaptel/asterisk from 0.9.0 to the 
latest.  The The Wiki mentions something about CVS and points to: 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33345  but that link is dead.  I 
figured I'd just CVS Asterisk the normal way, do the make install and it 
should upgrade it.

Regards,
Deon