Untangle, Asterisk & Samba On the Same Box

[andrew]

Alan Lord (http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com/content/view/32/71/) of The Open Source Learning Centre (http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com) has started a series of posts that document his efforts at getting Untangle, Asterisk & Samba running on the same hardware.

It looks like Alan is making great progress and you can read his first two posts here:


Untangle, Asterisk PBX and File Server; All-in-One. (http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2007/09/08/untangle-asterisk-pbx-and-file-server-all-in-one/)

Untangle, Asterisk PBX and File Server; All-in-One. Part 2 (http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2007/09/11/untangle-asterisk-pbx-and-file-server-all-in-one-part-2/)

Keep up the GREAT work Alan! :)

[lord_alan]

Thanks for the complement!!!

I haven't got that far yet! I've built a new LFS (Linux From Scratch) on the box and am now just getting some basic stuff on there to help with admin (like X).

I will start to try and get untangle built on top tomorrow but I do not have the list of dependencies so it could be LONNNG slog just working out what is missing from my raw installation.

From what I have seen I so far, I think it need's a recent JRE/JDK and Ruby for the build system...

I'll be reporting more as I know it.

Cheers

Alan

[andrew]

Well keep us posted, we think what you're attempting is very cool!

[lord_alan]

Great - thanks for the encouragement.

I do think it would make for a very handy "home appliance" for the networked family :-) or very small business...

[lord_alan]

Thought I'd drop a quick update...

I have the LFS system in place, along with Ruby, rake, and the latest JDK. I have since discovered that I'll need Postgresql and possibly ANT...

Running the rakefile, the build starts and gets some way, but the environment variable, JAVA_HOME is hardcoded in quite a few places thorugh various ".rb" files. I am unsure how "safe" it is to just drop them or re-do them to point to my JDK's location. If I knew rake,Ruby, I'd try and set the script's JAVA_HOME to my bash env var, but I haven't had chance to do much today so this will have to wait for while.

TTFN

Al

[lord_alan]

As part of my investigations I thought I'd try and install the Untangle system into a VM so I could investigate it's layout and structure at my leisure. I installed VirtualBox onto my Ubuntu Desktop machine and installed the Untangle 5.02 ISO as a VM. It seems to work perfectly :D

I have just added some more notes about this to the blog and there's a screenshot too!

Alan