s/Trixbox/FreePBX/g<br><br>Please, Trixbox is a distro, the GUI is FreePBX.<br><br>Another option might be Destar. Google it up.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matt Riddell</b>
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<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:<br>> Are there any Asterisk GUIs out there that actually parse the data files,<br>> themselves, instead of having some sort of metadata middle-man, which<br>> leads to said overwriting? I mean, I, personally, love the CLI -- always
<br>> have been a fast typist -- but I also know the CLI would scare the living<br>> bejeepers out of my boss if/when I try to push hard on an Asterisk<br>> solution. What I'd prefer is:<br><br>Pretty sure that AsteriskNow is reading as well as writing. Also, murf
<br>made some changes to clean up rewriting the other day (blank comment<br>lines now get retained or something).<br><br>> - The chance to do CLI stuff as I see fit, BUT<br>> - the ability to let users -- even administrative users -- use a GUI,
<br>> without messing up my beautiful config files.<br><br>:) I'd say that unless you get a race condition (i.e. GUI reads files,<br>you save your changes from CLI, GUI writes out changes), you should be<br>sweet now, although someone who uses AsteriskNow should be able to
<br>confirm/deny.<br><br>> Is this a pipe dream, or is there a GUI out there that might actually do<br>> the job?<br><br>- From what I've heard, AsteriskNow is shaping up pretty nicely.<br><br>There are options for things like TrixBox too -
i.e. the custom<br>extensions.conf stuff, but you need to remember that the machine is<br>running TrixBox and not change the base extensions.conf.<br><br>This used to be ok because if the extensions.conf-custom (or whatever
<br>the filename is) only appeared on machines which had TrixBox.<br><br>I've lately seen a few machines where the extra config files exist but<br>TrixBox is not running (i.e. someone copied /etc/asterisk from a TrixBox
<br>machine).<br><br>I actually put my extensions.conf stuff into a generate.php file which<br>writes out the extensions.conf file with parameters supplied by the<br>customer stored in separate files.<br><br>So our software is doing the same thing (overwriting configs) but I
<br>don't want the users changing settings too much.<br><br>I guess this is probably pretty similar to the TrixBox idea but I<br>haven't had a look at how that works under the hood.<br><br>I think AsteriskNow also lets you edit configuration files from the web
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