[Asterisk-Users] Is there any real asterisk documentation ?

[Steven Critchfield]

On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 09:35, frank.barthe at prescom.net wrote:
> Hi "users"
> 
> my first week with asterisk and digium boards has been
> a little bit "hard" ($£§!?)
> 
> So, please :
> "where did you find the documentation which gave you
> the magics" ?

I don't think any documentation that is geared to a beginning user will
ever provide "magic". Asterisk is a bit hard to configure so as to let
you do neat things with it. Much like *nix, it doesn't get in the way of
doing really clever functions. 

> ex :
>     - what are the events the logger can handle ?
>     - where is the internal application list ?

Like all good applications with it's own CLI, use help. From help you
will find show applications, and from there you will look up the most
current documentation by show application <foo>.

>     - what is each application the role in asterisk ?

see above.

>     - does the dynamic loader scan /modules directory or
>     is there a modules list somewhere ?

scans /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/

>     - what is the syntax for modules.conf ?

load=module.so
noload=module.so

>     - where are the parameters for each external module ?

None that I know of.

>     - what is the minimum list for asterisk to run ?

computer, and some form of interface, either ethernet to link VoIP
phones, or any number of analog interfaces, or T1/E1 interfaces.

>     - is there any interdependance between modules and int. applications ?
>     - etc... etc...
> 
> Are the pseudo-howto's listed on the site the existing knowledge repository ?
> Do I have to read the comments in source code ?
> Or just experiment ?
> 
> Thank you per advance for any suggestion !!!
> Frank
> 
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Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>