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[ILUG] Asterix box issues

[ILUG] Asterix box issues

Niall O Broin niall at linux.ie
Fri Sep 12 19:22:42 IST 2008


On 12 Sep 2008, at 19:11, Walter Faleiro wrote:

> Are you asking for the Asterix box model. If so as I had mentioned  
> earlier,
> its a customized hardware box. It has two disk drives in mirror with  
> Cent OS
> 5.x installed.
> The vendor has put his label on the box, so I do not know where the  
> original
> hardware came from.

That hardly matters - I think the question is who the Asterisk vendor  
is.

> And till this troubleshooting is over, I do not want to
> run even an ls command fearing it will turn out to be rm -rf.
> As for the vendor behaviour, its all because they were not given a  
> service
> contract. So its like our box is screwed up, but with a service  
> contract
> agreement, we will keep it less screwed up all the time.

If you HAD a service contract, you'd probably nullify it by doing  
unsupported things on the box anyway. Sadly, some vendors' initial  
reaction to a support call under a contract is to see if they can find  
a reason to deny it.


Niall




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