Hi Alejandro,
Have you been able to commit your start-at-boot patch?
thanks
From: Alejandro Guerrieri<[email protected]>
To: Alexander Malysh<[email protected]>
Cc: Kannel Devel<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: useful patches for everyone
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Thanks Alex,
I'll write the userguide part and commit.
Regards,
Alex
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Alejandro Guerrieri
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On 19/04/2011, at 11:52, Alexander Malysh wrote:
Hi Alex,
IMHO this option is not really needed and is only workaround about a fact
that bearerbox
is unable to reload configuration without restart. But reload is much
bigger implementation as
this simple "hack". If this "hack" will help much people to do cleaner
configuration now then I'm
not voting against this feature.
Alex, please update userguide and commit this patch if nobody has any
objections.
I'm +0
Thanks,
Alexander Malysh
Am 19.04.2011 um 10:49 schrieb Alejandro Guerrieri:
For KISS's sake, this doesn't clutter configuration nor breaks backwards
compatibility. It doesn't hurt performance either.
If you don't want to use it just ignore it completely, the default
behavior if the directive is missing is to start the smsc at boot as usual,
so no harm's done.
Where do we trace the "absolutely necessary" line is of course fuzzy, but
from what I read seems like other users would find it useful as well.
Regards,
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Alejandro Guerrieri
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On 19/04/2011, at 05:19, Nikos Balkanas wrote:
Hi,
wapbox must be kept around because of backwards compatibility, that is a
must for all open source software. Users are still using it.
Finally I would like to add my support for keeping configuration
explosion in check. Otherwise, what a few people might gain in convenience,
a lot of people might have to pay for it in terms of kannel support due to
more difficult configuration. Some golden rules in configuration are:
1) KISS
2) Don't expand it, unless it is absolutely necessary.
Stopping service to modify configuration is a no-no. Commenting a
configuration file off-line is convenience.
My 2 cents,
Nikos
----- Original Message ----- From: Juan Nin
To: Kannel Devel
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 4:41 AM
Subject: Re: useful patches for everyone
That's what we do today, but the idea is not to have to do any "extra"
work, neither having to comment/uncomment things out, nor have to add/remove
config files.
Having the start-at-boot directive allows you to just keep the
configuration defined, but the smsc does not start.
So anytime you need it, you just use the start-smsc and then the
stop-smsc.
This is much cleaner IMHO than having to do all the extra manual work,
no matter how easy that manual work it may be.
A similar discussion was held some months ago, can't remember what new
directive it was, where the directive was finally added, since it was seen
it was helpful.
Not all directives are used by everyone or may be useful for everybody,
that happens on any piece of software, but does not mean it's not useful,
nor that it should not be added. I don't care about the WAP related parts of
Kannel for example, and that doesn't mean I believe they should not exist.
Adding useful things to Kannel is something that makes Kannel a better
product, so I don't really see why not to add it. Maybe if it was something
complicated that really messed up with the code, could be, but this is
definitely not the case.
Just my 2 cents.
2011/4/18 Nikos Balkanas<[email protected]>
What about the HTTP command start-smsc:
It reloads the smsc and starts them from configuration. Therefore you
could have the smsc commented out at start, then enable it in the
configuration and start it from the web interface, without stooping kannel.
Is that not adequate?
BR,
Nikos
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Gottgens"
<[email protected]>
To: "Alvaro Cornejo"<[email protected]>
Cc: "Alexander Malysh"<[email protected]>; "Kannel Devel"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: useful patches for everyone
Hello,
i second that. Having the ability to start kannel with some of the binds
down
is so much easier in HA/Failover environments.
Monday, April 18, 2011, 8:31:05 PM, you wrote:
AC> Hi Alex
AC> Another use would be when having backup links. I do use over 20
modems
AC> but not have all enabled at start. In order to not to have to reload
AC> kannel when a new modem is needed, I do start kannel and then stop
all
AC> the backup modems and I have to do the same whenever I restart
kannel
AC> or the server
AC> I'll love to have this feature in standard kannel
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Best regards,
Thomas mailto:[email protected]
