RE: [Asterisk-Users] Xorcom Rapid Asterisk distro beta 0.5.2
I used the Xorcom cd to set up yesterday as well, haven't finished configs yet but I assume it's all ok. One point I will make is that it wouldn't discover my dhcp unless I installed using the expert mode then dhcp auto-discover worked fine. Cheers, Dean -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of steve szmidt Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 12:49 AM To: Asterisk Users List Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Xorcom Rapid Asterisk distro beta 0.5.2 On Sunday 10 October 2004 06:41 am, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Hi folks Hello to all, We have created a simple Debian-based distribution of Asterisk. A CD image of an installer(150MB, requires no extra packages from the 'net) that installs Debian and Asterisk simple and easy. You are invited to take a look at: http://www.xorcom.com/rapid/ The image is free as in GPL. Sources included on the image. Any comments will be appreciated, either via the website or directly to me. I'd like to thank all the users and developers who helped me on #asterisk , #debian-boot and other places. Being posed as an Asterisk distro I decided to reply to the list. This is a nice and fast install ending up using the whole of 334M on a single partition. I used an old 600 MHz machine with 256M RAM and it went pretty fast and smooth. Though I can't for the life of me understand why it defaults to having these ports open by default: porttcp udp service 9 x x discard 13 x daytime 37 x time 2000x callbook I know I don't want to offer any of these services to the Internet. 9/13/37 are never used these days as those services were found too easy to hack through. That was a number of years ago and of course they could be improved. But still does not explain why they are open. My SIP devices uses 123. Port 2000 has been reported as recently as the 25th Oct to be an increasing new IIS PCT exploit. One usually prefer to keep a low profile with servers. This one is asking for attention. To their defense, if you read the release notes, they do recommend against using this in a production environment. I'd like to see a more prominent warning. And during the ever simple install it does not verify the root password. You better know what you type. It does not have ssh installed. Not being a debian user I'm not sure if there's a good reason to not include ssh in the default install. Except to keep things to bare bones. Though I would be hard to not have space for ssh. The game Banner could be skipped if space is the target. All in all it has lots of tools linked through a menu system that works pretty decently. Plenty enough for a server. I guess having an ability to edit asterisk from there could be added. Otherwise it's quite complete. I managed to install ssh, and mc, easily enough (from the CD I think, it seems too fast to have come down over the net). Somehow I've managed to make this my first direct contact with building a Debian system. It would be VERY hard to make it any easier. The one thing I'd like to see is a menu option that opens the services I need After the install. Not open by default. Asterisk from 05/31/04 is running on kernel 2.4.27. There's a minor point of having a broken vm link in /var/spool/asterisk. Having said all that, I think they have done a great job of creating a single Asterisk CD. Some honest work went into getting this done. As a contribution to Asterisk I think it's a very good thing! If the next release continous this well, it should be a very popular distro for our community! -- Steve Szmidt They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Xorcom Rapid Asterisk distro beta 0.5.2
On Sunday 10 October 2004 06:41 am, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Hi folks Hello to all, We have created a simple Debian-based distribution of Asterisk. A CD image of an installer(150MB, requires no extra packages from the 'net) that installs Debian and Asterisk simple and easy. You are invited to take a look at: http://www.xorcom.com/rapid/ The image is free as in GPL. Sources included on the image. Any comments will be appreciated, either via the website or directly to me. I'd like to thank all the users and developers who helped me on #asterisk , #debian-boot and other places. Being posed as an Asterisk distro I decided to reply to the list. This is a nice and fast install ending up using the whole of 334M on a single partition. I used an old 600 MHz machine with 256M RAM and it went pretty fast and smooth. Though I can't for the life of me understand why it defaults to having these ports open by default: porttcp udp service 9 x x discard 13 x daytime 37 x time 2000x callbook I know I don't want to offer any of these services to the Internet. 9/13/37 are never used these days as those services were found too easy to hack through. That was a number of years ago and of course they could be improved. But still does not explain why they are open. My SIP devices uses 123. Port 2000 has been reported as recently as the 25th Oct to be an increasing new IIS PCT exploit. One usually prefer to keep a low profile with servers. This one is asking for attention. To their defense, if you read the release notes, they do recommend against using this in a production environment. I'd like to see a more prominent warning. And during the ever simple install it does not verify the root password. You better know what you type. It does not have ssh installed. Not being a debian user I'm not sure if there's a good reason to not include ssh in the default install. Except to keep things to bare bones. Though I would be hard to not have space for ssh. The game Banner could be skipped if space is the target. All in all it has lots of tools linked through a menu system that works pretty decently. Plenty enough for a server. I guess having an ability to edit asterisk from there could be added. Otherwise it's quite complete. I managed to install ssh, and mc, easily enough (from the CD I think, it seems too fast to have come down over the net). Somehow I've managed to make this my first direct contact with building a Debian system. It would be VERY hard to make it any easier. The one thing I'd like to see is a menu option that opens the services I need After the install. Not open by default. Asterisk from 05/31/04 is running on kernel 2.4.27. There's a minor point of having a broken vm link in /var/spool/asterisk. Having said all that, I think they have done a great job of creating a single Asterisk CD. Some honest work went into getting this done. As a contribution to Asterisk I think it's a very good thing! If the next release continous this well, it should be a very popular distro for our community! -- Steve Szmidt They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Xorcom Rapid Asterisk distro beta 0.5.2
Hi again, folks A short update On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 12:41:07PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: We have created a simple Debian-based distribution of Asterisk. A CD image of an installer(150MB, requires no extra packages from the 'net) that installs Debian and Asterisk simple and easy. You are invited to take a look at: http://www.xorcom.com/rapid/ Original file was at http://iglu.org.il/pub/Hebrew/Xorcom/ A mirror has been contributed by Joop Cousteau: http://radiovoip.com/Rapid/ So you can now actually download this in more than a modem's speed :-) The image is free as in GPL. Sources included on the image. Any comments will be appreciated, either via the website or directly to me. I'd like to thank all the users and developers who helped me on #asterisk , #debian-boot and other places. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+ [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq#16849755 ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
