[asterisk-users] Which folder for sounds?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 05:49:30PM -0400, sean darcy wrote:
> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 09:38:26PM -0400, sean darcy wrote:
> >> 1.6.2:
> >>
> >>      -- Executing [s at incoming-pstn-line:4] VoiceMail("DAHDI/4-1", 
> >> "100 at default,u") in new stack
> >>      -- <DAHDI/4-1> Playing 
> >> '/var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/default/100/unavail.gsm' (language 'en')
> >> [Mar 22 17:15:46] WARNING[31145]: file.c:650 ast_openstream_full: File 
> >> vm-intro does not exist in any format
> >> [Mar 22 17:15:46] WARNING[31145]: file.c:953 ast_streamfile: Unable to 
> >> open vm-intro (format 0x4 (ulaw)): No such file or directory
> >>
> >> But:
> >>
> >> locate vm-intro
> >>
> >> /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/en/vm-intro.gsm
> >> /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/en/vm-intro.ulaw
> >> /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/en/vm-intro.wav

The sound files directory was irrelevant, as Asterisk tried to use a
full path.

"/var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/default/100/unavail.gsm" does not exist
in any format. That is:

  /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/default/100/unavail.gsm.{exten}

does not exist, for any valid value of 'exten' (wav, WAV, gsm, etc. See
the 'Extensions' column in 'core show file formats').

> >>
> >> head -12 /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf
> >> [directories](!) ; remove the (!) to enable this
> > 
> > As long as it is not enabled, the compile-time defaults are used.
> > 
> >> astetcdir => /etc/asterisk
> >> astmoddir => /usr/lib64/asterisk/modules
> >> astvarlibdir => /var/lib/asterisk
> >> astdbdir => /var/lib/asterisk
> >> astkeydir => /var/lib/asterisk
> >> astdatadir => /var/lib/asterisk
> >> astagidir => /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin
> >> astspooldir => /var/spool/asterisk
> >> astrundir => /var/run/asterisk
> >> astlogdir => /var/log/asterisk
> >>
> >>
> >> So in which folder are these sounds supposed to be?
> > 
> > Unless you specifid the full path explicitly, 

Full path was specified. Hence the rest of the explanation is pointless
:-(

> > DEFAULTLANG defaults to 'en' and can be set to a default value in
> > asterisk.conf. Normally people don't change it.

It isn't. My mistake. It can only be overriden in the code. Sorry.

(Generally asterisk.conf is parsed in main/asterisk.c . DEFAULT_LANGUAGE
is defined in include/asterisk.h .

> 
> But 1.6.2 can't find them. I've found that if I make the folders 
> explicit, by removing the (!) in asterisk.conf it does find them. Which 
> means that somehow the default datadir is NOT /var/lib/asterisk. Odd.

Also note that Debian / Ubuntu set datadir at build time:

Basically by running: 

  make ASTDATADIR=/usr/share/asterisk

See http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-voip/asterisk/trunk/debian/rules

But I sadly also pointed to the completely wrong direction. See above.

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