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

[Craig Guy]

Is that a CVS-head thing?  I have setup 1.0.3 today running as non-root
asterisk user on FC2 no problems.

Craig

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew McRory" <amcrory at linuxsys.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] What is the best and easiest flavor to be
usedwith Asterisk.


> 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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