[Asterisk-Users] What is the best and easiest flavor to be used with Asterisk.

[Andrew McRory]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Imran Sadiq <imran at lancom.co.nz> wrote:
>
> Could anyone please advise me on the best flavor of Linux on which
> Asterisk is easiest to install.

I like Fedora Core 1 if for no other reason than I am used to redhat 
distributions. Also you can grab RPMS from 
ftp://ftp.linuxsys.com/pub/releases/FC1 for an easy installation. 

The only caveat I know of with these packages is that something has
changed in Asterisk recently where it is not happy running as user
"asterisk" which is what my packaging intends to do. Until I have time to
figure this out, I recommend that you edit line 26 in /etc/init.d/asterisk
and remove "--user asterisk" the line reads:

	daemon /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk

This change will cause asterisk to run as root. I will get around to 
making this a option set /etc/sysconfig/asterisk eventually but for now 
you will have to edit the said file.

Other than that, grab the kernel when you download and you wont have to 
recompile anything. 

Good luck!

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