[asterisk-users] Faxing: Anyone have a compiled executable?

[Steve Totaro]

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Mr. James W. Laferriere <
babydr at baby-dragons.com> wrote:

>        Hello Kevin & All ,
>
> On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> > Doug wrote:
> >> >>>app_fax.c from:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> https://agx-ast-addons.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/agx-ast-addons/trun
> >> >>>k/app-spandsp/
> >>
> >> Compiled OK:
> >>    /usr/src/asterisk/app_fax# ls -lta app_fax.*
> >>    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28869 Jan 13 00:25 app_fax.so
> >>    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25242 Jan 13 00:24 app_fax.c
> >>
> >> Copied to modules directory:
> >>
> >>    cp -p app_fax.so  /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/
> >>
> >> There it is:
> >>
> >>    ls -lta /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/app_fax*
> >>
> >>    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28869 Jan 16 02:10
> >> /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/app_fax.so
> >>
> >> Added a specific line in /etc/asterisk/modules.conf:
> >>
> >>    load => app_fax.so
> >>
> >> Rebooted.  No module loaded:
> >>
> >>    # lsmod | grep fax
> >>    #
> >
> > app_fax is not a kernel module, it's an Asterisk module. 'lsmod' is
> > never going to show it.
>
>         Kevin ,  Sometimes your about as helpful as passing wind .
>
>        How about telling him howto determine if Asterisk has loaded the
> module
> successfully ?
>
>        Maybe even a grep of /var/log/asterisk/debug or
> /var/log/asterisk/messages for app_fax .  Would have helped him more than
> that
> comment .  Sorry that reply just really rubbed me wrong .
>
>        I've found a 'visual only' way of seeing loaded modules under
> Asterisk
> 1.4.21.2 ...
>
>        module reload ?  <  Should show those modules available for reload ,
>  So
> I expect they have been loaded successfully .
>
>        Here's something that would be good a 'module show loaded' command
> showing the user the successfully loaded moduels !?
>
>                Hth ,  JimL
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>
> Try loading or reloading the module from the Asterisk CLI and see if it
complains.  Then check /var/log/asterisk/full or whatever.

You could try module show like and hit tab, if app_fax.so is not listed, it
isn't loaded.  Version 1.6, not sure if it works in 1.4.

Thanks,
Steve T
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