[Asterisk-Users] Zaptel Issue in Fedora Core 2 test 3

[steve szmidt]

On Wednesday 03 November 2004 08:05 am, James Botham wrote:
> just interested to know what the contents of you /dev/zap/ctl directory are.

ctl is not a directory. Look here:

crw-r--r--  1 root root 196, 0 Oct 30 16:40 /dev/zap/ctl

And no you cannot readily cat a dev. I've not had to create any device files 
for a long time so I've forgotten how you do it, but the c means its a 
character device. It's a device that is read one character at a time.

The command should be mknod so a man mknod should give you the details.
And I cannot imagine why it was not created for you. It seems plausable that 
it should have been created at least by the time you run the zaptel install 
script. You could also just reinstall the binaries.

There's script on szmidt.org/asterisk/asterisk-update.sh that will create 
backups of your source code and download, compile, install the asterisk 
system, etc. Simply run it without any parameter and it will give you the 
syntax.

Not that running the install by hand is very hard... but I get lazy and try to 
automate everything. Which can make things overly complex. So it may still 
have some bug in it. Though it seems to run just fine now.
-- 

Steve Szmidt

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