From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-server+bounces-2440-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1GSzdY-0002ww-P0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:25:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8SHOsUI030801; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:24:54 GMT Received: from swarthymail-a2.dreamhost.com (sd-green-bigip-54.dreamhost.com [208.97.132.54]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8SHM82Q017957 for <gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:22:08 GMT Received: from [192.168.11.109] (66-214-153-7.dhcp.mtpk.ca.charter.com [66.214.153.7]) by swarthymail-a2.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5BBDF0261 for <gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:22:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <451C04B7.7060504@hyperreal.org> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:21:59 -0700 From: Mark Rudholm <rudholm@hyperreal.org> User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060412) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-server+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-server+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-server+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-server.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] ASTERISK References: <217e6afb0609280144h21832cafyce8311e62487385f@mail.gmail.com> <451B8E3F.80604@hyperreal.org> <20060928120108.GB25803@gandalf.squishychicken.com> In-Reply-To: <20060928120108.GB25803@gandalf.squishychicken.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a6c50712-9b98-4564-9d09-1e9934a643df X-Archives-Hash: 4e98d7d91eeb9153ea0a3dc891927960 Actually we're not in much disagreement, I know the book is out of date, and in fact, it's not really that good (the tutorial is weirdly non-linear and I was aghast at some of the errors in the chapter on traditional telephony) but it does have an informative tutorial that is still probably of value to novices. And yeah, I guess I forgot to mention that if you're going to use the ebuild, you should use the masked version (which is basically current). Sean Cook wrote: > Unfortunately, I would completely disagree with Mark on this... ATFOT is a > great book, however it is a bit dated. And as for asterisk ebuilds... > forget it... they are still running out of 1.0 when 1.2 has been out for > almost a year and 1.4 is on it's way into beta. > > Download the source... compile and install it... > > You need the following packages: > > ncurses > openssl > zlib > bison > > Then download all the necessary 1.2 packages and... > > # cd zaptel-1.2 > # make clean; make install > # cd ../libpri-1.2 > # make clean; make install > # cd ../asterisk-1.2 > # make clean; make install > > > > Sean > > > On 28-Sep-2006, Mark Rudholm wrote: >> You should read the book "Asterisk The Future of Telephony". >> It is available for free download. Search for "AsteriskTFOT.pdf" >> Also, http://www.voip-info.org/ is a good resource for information. >> >> The Asterisk ebuild is pretty good. It sets everything up for >> you, you just have to edit your config files. It's not something >> you can do in 10 minutes. I'd say the complexity level is about >> on par with Apache. >> >> -Mark >> >> Suranga Kasthuriarachchi wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> >>> Please anyone have experience about asterisk setup. and I'm very new to >>> asterisk. so please help me to configure my asterisk server. >>> i need to know like what are the basic requirement for to setup asterisk.. >>> >>> Thanking you, >>> >>> Suranga >>> >> -- >> gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list >> -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list