Monthly Archives: April 2009

Subversion over SSH

Continuing with my exploration of using some form of version control to hand configuration file managent, I’ve been using svn over ssh. Setting up svn access over ssh is a fairly stright forward process.  The first set is to create the actual repo on the server. mkdir /var/repo/configs Then use svnadmin to create a repository [...]

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Using source control for config management

A project involving asterisk has forced me to find a way to help manage my configurations. I’m going to give using subversion a go at helping me to keep some level of change control and really simple backups, and I’m going to share my thoughts on that here. This post doesn’t have any new details, [...]

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Quick review of the Aastra 57i

As part of an project, I recently received a few Aastra 57i SIP phones at work.  After spending a few days with them, I’ve decided to write up a short review of something of the things I like (and don’t like) about these phones. Let’s start with the phone itself.  It’s not much bigger than [...]

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