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[darcy at Vex.Net]

I know that it runs on other systems but do other ports get the same
attention? I have been running it on a NetBSD server for about a year
now and while it mostly works it just crashes from time to time with no
explanation or core dump.

I have improved the situation by expanding my intrusion detection but
it still stops every few days or so. I have a cron job that tests for
it and restarts it when necessary.

Anyone else have experience on non-Linux systems?

Cheers.

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D'Arcy J.M. Cain
System Administrator, Vex.Net
http://www.Vex.Net/ IM:darcy@Vex.Net
VoIP: sip:darcy@Vex.Net

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[tzafrir.cohen at xorco...]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 09:25:39AM -0500, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:

[rwheeler at artifact-s...]

Why not just bite the bullet and move to a supported Linux?
- you can be assured that it works
- updates are tested
- help and support is readily available.
- only takes a few minutes to install the whole setup
- configuration should port easily.

There is almost no Linux administration required once it is set up so
getting deep into the actual OS is not required.
I have used CentOS (5.x and 6.x) for years without any problems.
I have not tried it with CentOS 7 and would recommend sticking with the
latest CentOS 6 for a while yet.
I am converting the rest of my datacenter to 7 starting with the main
firewall/router and a virtual host.
Firewall is now in production but it was a bit of a learning curve for me.

There are big differences between 6 and 7 and I would let some other
Asterisk users switch before going to 7.

Free advice and worth every cent!

Ron

On 12/02/2015 9:25 AM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:

[kevin.larsen at pionee...]

[darcy at Vex.Net]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 09:43:33 -0500
Ron Wheeler <rwheeler@artifact-software.com> wrote:

[darcy at Vex.Net]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 16:39:55 +0200
Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com> wrote:

[Justin.Sherrill at ame...]

I would love to run Asterisk on a BSD system. I do not know of any developers actively working on Asterisk on a BSD platform, though my knowledge isn't comprehensive.

It may be worth talking to the people doing the packaging for various BSD platforms, to see how involved they are, or if they know of people developing it directly. jnemeth@netbsd for pkgsrc, madpilot@freebsd for ports/dports, and sthen@openbsd for OpenBSD ports, for example. I know you're developing on NetBSD, but correcting for "not-Linux" would help everyone.

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Subject: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk a Linux only system?

I know that it runs on other systems but do other ports get the same attention? I have been running it on a NetBSD server for about a year now and while it mostly works it just crashes from time to time with no explanation or core dump.

I have improved the situation by expanding my intrusion detection but it still stops every few days or so. I have a cron job that tests for it and restarts it when necessary.

Anyone else have experience on non-Linux systems?

Cheers.

--
D'Arcy J.M. Cain
System Administrator, Vex.Net
http://www.Vex.Net/ IM:darcy@Vex.Net
VoIP: sip:darcy@Vex.Net

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Justin Sherrill wrote:

[tzafrir.cohen at xorco...]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 03:09:02PM +0000, Justin Sherrill wrote:

[j.halifax2 at seznam.cz]

Asterisk needs to operate with high operating system reliability as needed and usual in the Telecom domain. Windows system don't offer such reliability, so that's why they are not used in any field where high reliability, security and data safety are required (like military, Government, industries, power production and distribution etc. etc.).

If you check the top computing systems in the world, there
- 99.6 are running Unix/Linux systems,
- - 97% are running Linux,
- - 2.6% are running Unix and only
- 0.2% are running Windows.


Also using Windows' Internet Explorer is falling down for years, being surpassed by Google Chrome and FireFox..


It may be also due to the fact that many believes that scrappy character of Windows is a marketing trick pushing billions of users to buy again and again what they have already bought (by means of huge misleading advertising "buy the new version, it's finally Super Excellent", people buy but the known crashes, security vulnerabilities, data lost and other well known problems last - what repeats for 20 years)...


You may remember also a big scandal with the letter by HQ to branches which called "under any cost don't allow that Linux gets in Government sector", offering the huge million fund for "support" of sales..


Etc. etc.


JH

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[mjordan at digium.com]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 8:52 AM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@vex.net (darcy@vex.net)> wrote:

[mjordan at digium.com]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:38 AM, David M. Lee <dlee@digium.com (dlee@digium.com)> wrote:

[dlee at digium.com]

[tzafrir.cohen at xorco...]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:38:33AM -0600, David M. Lee wrote: