Install asterisk on CentOS 6

How to install asterisk on CentOS 6. In this tutorial, the version of CentOS 6 is

# cat /etc/redhat-release 
CentOS release 6.4 (Final)

1. Update the environment

# yum install -y epel-release dmidecode gcc-c++ ncurses-devel libxml2-devel make wget openssl-devel newt-devel kernel-devel sqlite-devel libuuid-devel gtk2-devel jansson-devel binutils-devel

2. Install pjproject

# cd /tmp
# wget http://www.pjsip.org/release/2.5.5/pjproject-2.5.5.tar.bz2
# tar -jxvf pjproject-2.5.5.tar.bz2

2.1 Compile pjproject

# cd pjproject-2.5.5
# ./configure CFLAGS="-DNDEBUG -DPJ_HAS_IPV6=1" --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --disable-video --disable-sound --disable-opencore-amr

NOTE: I am installing in an 32bit machine. If you are using 64bit machine, add --libdir=/usr/lib64

# make dep
# make 
# make install
# ldconfig

Verify the pjsip libraries have been dynamically linked

# ldconfig -p | grep pj

3. Install asterisk

# cd /tmp
#  wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/certified-asterisk/asterisk-certified-13.8-current.tar.gz
# tar -zxvf asterisk-certified-13.8-current.tar.gz 
# cd asterisk-certified-13.8-cert2
# ./configure

NOTE: If you are using 64bit machine, add --libdir=/usr/lib64 Error encountered

checking for json_dumps in -ljansson... no
configure: error: *** JSON support not found (this typically means the libjansson development package is missing)
#

To resolve, install jansson

# wget http://www.digip.org/jansson/releases/jansson-2.9.tar.gz
# tar -zxvf  jansson-2.9.tar.gz
# cd jansson-2.9
# ./configure
# make
# make install

Go back to asterisk-certified-13.8-cert2 and run ./configure Verify if the pjsip channel driver dependencies have been successfully installed.

# make menuselect

If all res_pjsip has (*) then you are good. Proceed with the installation.

# make 
# make install

You should see the following

 +---- Asterisk Installation Complete -------+
 +                                           +
 +    YOU MUST READ THE SECURITY DOCUMENT    +
 +                                           +
 + Asterisk has successfully been installed. +
 + If you would like to install the sample   +
 + configuration files (overwriting any      +
 + existing config files), run:              +
 +                                           +
 + For generic reference documentation:      +
 +    make samples                           +
 +                                           +
 + For a sample basic PBX:                   +
 +    make basic-pbx                         +
 +                                           +
 +                                           +
 +-----------------  or ---------------------+
 +                                           +
 + You can go ahead and install the asterisk +
 + program documentation now or later run:   +
 +                                           +
 +               make progdocs               +
 +                                           +
 + **Note** This requires that you have      +
 + doxygen installed on your local system    +
 +-------------------------------------------+
#

If you want Asterisk to start at boot time use the following command to setup the Asterisk service. You should have asterisk in /etc/init.d

# make config
# chkconfig --list | grep asterisk
asterisk        0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

Error Encountered

# asterisk /usr/sbin/asterisk -C /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf
asterisk: error while loading shared libraries: libjansson.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Solution

# ln -s /usr/local/lib/libjansson.so.4 /usr/lib/libjansson.so.4
# echo /usr/local/lib > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/asterisk.conf
# ldconfig

Verify if you can locate libjansson.so.4

# updatedb
# locate libjansson.so.4

You should be able to list /usr/lib/libjansson.so.4

Change or Remove Passphrase Key in ssh Private Key

Change or Remove Passphrase Key in ssh Private Keys

# ssh-keygen -p -f private_key
Enter old passphrase:
Key has comment 'private_key'
Enter new passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved with the new passphrase.

WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy.

I have an error after I do fdisk on my new disk.

[root@local ~]$

Command (m for help): t
Selected partition 1
Hex code (type L to list codes): 8e
Changed system type of partition 1 to 8e (Linux LVM)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdb: 2000.3 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1      243201  1953512001   8e  Linux LVM

Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!

Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.

WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy.
The kernel still uses the old table.
The new table will be used at the next reboot.
Syncing disks.
[root@local ~]$

Solution:

hdparm -z /dev/sdb

How to change crontab editor

How to change the default crontab editor

export VISUAL='vim'

How to identify if your bash shell is vulnerable to Bash Code Injection Vulnerability (CVE-2014-6271) , CVE-2014-7169

This new vulnerable in bash is spreading quickly over the Internet just like the heartbleed. How to know if your bash version is vulnerable?
For Linux

env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c "echo this is a test"

For Solaris 10

env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c "echo this is a test"

For Solaris 11

env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c "echo this is a test"

Solution is of course to patch or update to the latest version of bash. Go check out your OS for any updates now.

Starting spamd: child process [22173] exited or timed out without signaling production of a PID file

I upgraded spamassassin and encountered an error when trying to start it.

[root@nelsoncli Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.0]# /etc/init.d/spamassassin start
Starting spamd: child process [22173] exited or timed out without signaling production of a PID file: exit 255 at /usr/bin/spamd line 2960.
                                                           [FAILED]

Solution: Run sa-update.

httpd: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for

Error:

[root@kraken htdocs]# /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start
httpd: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for kraken
httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
[root@kraken htdocs]#

Solution:

Edit your httpd.conf and check the line

ServerName

You may put ServerName <hostname> or Server localhost