[asterisk-users] What version to upgrade to...?

[Eric Wieling]

Asterisk uses libcap to do "root-like" things when running as non-root.  Setting the DSCP/QoS value of packets requires root access, but Asterisk seems to manage just fine using libcap (not libpcap, that is different).

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On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Danny Nicholas <danny at debsinc.com> wrote:
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> 2011/12/12, Mike Diehl <mdiehl at diehlnet.com>:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have 2 servers running 1.6.2.9 and I'm about to build a third server.
>> This
>> suggests the possibility of doing a rolling upgrade of all of my servers.
>>
>> This brings up the question of what version to install and upgrade to.
>> I don't have many upgrade opportunities, so I'd like to get as much 
>> bang for my buck.  Since I've applied some custom patches to my 1.6, 
>> I'd also like to get to a new enough version that my patches would be 
>> useful to the community.
>>
>> Should I go to 1.8.x?  Or all the way up to 10.x?  This is a 
>> production system and I can't afford to be "testing" code.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Take care and have fun,
>> Mike Diehl.
>>
>>
>
> I'm roughly wondering the same thing.
>
> If I may add, I read few weeks ago, that Asterisk's SNMP features 
> required asterisk to run as root. If any of  asterisk 1.8 or 10 
> version could solve this limitation, that would convince to dive in that one.
>
> I'm wondering if the bind 161 as root statement is a mis-statement or 
> if not, maybe somebody like Tzafir can explain why since none of the 
> other Asterisk binds require root access (this message is still in 10.0-rc3).
>

Any port under 1024 is a reserved system port and normally can only be opened by root.  161 is under 1024, thus root.  You can run snmp on other ports if you really want to.

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~ Andrew "lathama" Latham lathama at gmail.com http://lathama.net ~

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