[App_rpt-users] New Official Allstar Distribution Released (DIAL)

[Steve Zingman]

Bryan,
Yes, rolling you own is still supported. I will continue to provide 
scripts and patches to install AllStar Asterisk on Debian. My scripts 
and patches will remain at <https://github.com/N4IRS/AllStar>

DIAL is a really a Debian netinstall that sets up to download and 
install asterisk on first boot. It makes a number of assumptions of how 
a bare metal machine should be configured and downloads the source to 
DAHDI and Asterisk (From the SVN) to build a functional node.

The decision to support root login has it's pluses and minuses. To 
retain compatibility with ACID it is enabled by default. During the 
testing of the image I had quite a few people needing help to login and 
edit files using tools like WinSCP. As you well know, it's trivial to 
turn off and I may add a question to the node setup scripts to make it 
easy to swap.

My plate is quite full right now with 1.0 of DIAL, A brand new Android 
IAX client and preparations to update the PiStar and other SBC Debian 
images to mirror DIAL.
If someone wants to tackle getting current Asterisk working with app_rpt 
I'll provide whatever I can. I know in the past it has been said it is 
not possible .

73, Steve N4IRS

On 10/05/2015 02:56 PM, Bryan Fields wrote:
> On 10/5/15 8:40 AM, Steve Zingman wrote:
>> It's version 1.0 with all that implies. It's better in some areas under the
>> hood. The node setup scripts are now included along with more information to
>> the user during install. root login via SSH is now allowed.
> Cool, Is the rolling your own still supported?  most of the reason I rolled my
> own was to run on Debian in the first place.
>
> Also, root login supported :(  that's just a bad idea.
>
> Thanks for the awesome work.  I know I've asked about the progress being made,
> if any, to get app_rpt back into mainline asterisk in the past.  Has anything
> been happening on this front?
>
> 73's

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