[Asterisk-Users] Re: zaptel.conf in /etc not /etc/asterisk - historical reason?

[David John Walsh]

Thanks for getting back to me,

the only reason that I see to move it (and more importantly to move it
to /etc/asterisk)
is that I am intending to use DRDB to make the machines as identical
as possible, and to ensure that the configs of the two machines are
kept in-sync.

My mount points for the 3 replicated drives were going to be
/etc/asterisk
/var
and /home (or /users)

I cant replicate /etc as things need to be different in some of its
child directories (init.d and sysconf are two) (although I guess I
could as I'm not intending to replicate /var/spool/ and thats below
var)

If zaptel.conf moves to /etc/asterisk, it keeps my replication simpler
than adding lots of mount points

nb - DRDB is a replication technology (laymans term I know) (commonly
used with linux-ha)

I agree it doesn't belong in /etc/asterisk, but its convient,
especially since I know of no other "application" that interfaces with
it :)

David

On 5/16/05, Tony Mountifield <tony at softins.clara.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <eeb77e890505160327dc76ef7 at mail.gmail.com>,
> David John Walsh <davidjohnwalsh at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > One thing gets me, and hopefully someone here can confirm my suspision
> > - why is zaptel.conf not with the other asterisk files
> >
> > (I assume it is because its responsable for bringing up the hardware,
> > not strictly part of the asterisk application)
> 
> Yes. Zaptel came before Asterisk and is independent of it. It is possible
> for other non-Asterisk software to make use of Zaptel, without Asterisk
> needing to be present at all.
> 
> > Would someone care to confirm my suspision, and if I'm wrong advise me why.
> >
> > As a follow on to this - if i were to move it somewhere else, is it
> > the somthing.c file that  would need to be changed to reflect this
> > move.
> 
> Don't know, but I have trouble understanding the need to move it.
> 
> The only place that it would make sense to move it to would be
> /etc/zaptel/zaptel.conf, but since it is a single file, why bother?
> It certainly doesn't belong in the /etc/asterisk directory.
> 
> Cheers
> Tony
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