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TrixBox Made Easy

You're reading from   TrixBox Made Easy A step-by-step guide to installing and running your home and office VoIP system

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2006
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781904811930
Length 168 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Basic System Configuration


We will now have a look at some of the basic system management tools that we can use before we go on to configure the telephone functionality in the next chapter. There are some basic settings and updates we will want to take care of to make sure our system is up-to-date. If our system is on a public IP address, these settings are even more important to ensure that we have all the latest security updates. Regardless of what we may have heard, Linux operating systems have just as many security holes as Microsoft's operating systems and have to be patched on a regular basis. TrixBox is just another Linux server and in most circumstances should be treated as such.

Updating TrixBox

In most systems, keeping the system updated with all the latest operating-system patches and application updates requires maintaining long scripts and knowing obscure system commands to get the updates. With TrixBox, this is all handled by one simple command, the trixbox-update.sh script...

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