[asterisk-users] Is using dahdi_genconf_parameters recommended to configure dahdi ?

[Olivier]

2008/12/1 Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com>

> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 09:12:31AM +0100, Olivier wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just discovered that dahdi_genconf could create configuration files
> > reading a single genconf_parameter file.
> >
> > 1. Is using dahdi_genconf recommended to configure dahdi or is it a
> helpful
> > tool for specific devices or installation processes ?
>
> A helpful tool.
>
> Though my opinion is that for the common cases (analog-only systems,
> BRI, simple PRI setups) you should just use it and save yourself the
> need to configure two and more different places.
>
> I would like to know where it has bad defaults and where it could be
> improved.


IMHO, its defaults are  fine.

The only suggestion that I can think of for it would be to run in
interactive mode : asking relevant questions to users instead of reading
configuration data in a file.



>
> >
> > 2. If not, is there a custom mecanism that would prevent hand-edited
> files
> > to be written over by dahdi_genconf (you can obviously remove execution
> > rights to dahdi_genconf but is there something better) ?
>
> dahdi_genconf is not run automaitcally as part of the installation
> procedure and should not be run automatically IMHO.
>
> (Int also generates a .bak file for every file it generates. But this is
> only useful when you run it once)
>
> > If yes, is it normal that /etc/dahdi wouldn't contain any example of
> > genconf_parameter file (in my setup, I could find one in
> > /usr/src/dahdi/tools/xpp/ but none in /etc/dahdi) or did I miss a step
> when
> > I installed dahdi or asterisk ?
>
> The parameters files is optional. I'm not sure I like installing sample
> configuration files that later on get obsolete. But documentation there
> is still badly missing.
>
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