[asterisk-users] Newbie Asterisk: Install Asterisk as non-root

2008-05-15 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I was following the instruction on http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+non-root to re-install my Asterisk as non-root when I had the following questions/issues: 1) Use your system's preferred method of adding a new user. Examples: Red Hat: adduser -c Asterisk PBX -d /var/lib/asterisk -u

Re: [asterisk-users] voicemail not sending emails

2008-05-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 09:14:44PM -0700, Roberto Milani wrote: does the /tmp directory need to have some specific kind of mode/ ownership? mine is linked to /private/tmp and is lrwxr-xr-x root admin Yes, It is normally 1777 (all readable/writable/executable, but with the sticy bit, which

Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom XML Files / asterisk

2008-05-15 Thread Philipp Kempgen
Robert McNaught schrieb: Does anyone know how to apply a style sheet to the polycom automatic provisioning XML files? Why should applying a stylesheet be different than for any other XML files? Even better, does anyone know of a web-based XML editor where you can just edit the files from

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Asterisk: Install Asterisk as non-root

2008-05-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 06:17:12PM +1000, Lee, John (Sydney) wrote: I was following the instruction on http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+non-root to re-install my Asterisk as non-root when I had the following questions/issues: For those wondering what the fuss is all about, look at: He

Re: [asterisk-users] Question about SS7

2008-05-15 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Wed, 14 May 2008 17:06:54 -0400, Alexander Lopez wrote: SS7 helps carriers maximize the use of the circuits that interconnect them with others. Instead of using a channel and having it open for 30 seconds as the call is setup, user gets signaling (busy, ringing, not in service), and call

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Asterisk: Install Asterisk as non-root

2008-05-15 Thread Philipp Kempgen
Lee, John (Sydney) schrieb: I was following the instruction on http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+non-root to re-install my Asterisk as non-root when I had the following questions/issues: 1) Use your system's preferred method of adding a new user. Examples: Red Hat: adduser -c

[asterisk-users] Problem while running Flash Operator Panel

2008-05-15 Thread Sukhbir Singh
Hi All, Whenever i try to start FOP using script ./op_panel_redhat.sh start given in directory /usr/local/op_panel-snapshot/init I got the following error: Starting Flash Operator Panel: execvp: No such file or directory

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Asterisk: Install Asterisk as non-root

2008-05-15 Thread Alan Lord
Lee, John (Sydney) wrote: I was following the instruction on http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+non-root to re-install my Asterisk as non-root when I had the following questions/issues: 1) Use your system's preferred method of adding a new user. Examples: Red Hat: adduser -c Asterisk

[asterisk-users] are channel names unique

2008-05-15 Thread Benjamin Jacob
Hello ppl, Are the channel names generated on 'Dial's supposed to be unique? I see the channel names repeating on my asterisk box. I just wanted to confirm this. Can anyone point me to the lines of code where the channel name is generated/calculated? I tried looking, but it looks like quite a

Re: [asterisk-users] are channel names unique

2008-05-15 Thread Russell Bryant
Benjamin Jacob wrote: Are the channel names generated on 'Dial's supposed to be unique? I see the channel names repeating on my asterisk box. I just wanted to confirm this. Can anyone point me to the lines of code where the channel name is generated/calculated? I tried looking, but it

Re: [asterisk-users] are channel names unique

2008-05-15 Thread Philipp Kempgen
Benjamin Jacob schrieb: Can anyone point me to the lines of code where the channel name is generated/calculated? I tried looking, but it looks like quite a big maze. ast_channel_alloc() in main/channel.c ---cut--- if (ast_strlen_zero(ast_config_AST_SYSTEM_NAME)) {

Re: [asterisk-users] are channel names unique

2008-05-15 Thread Philipp Kempgen
Philipp Kempgen schrieb: Benjamin Jacob schrieb: Can anyone point me to the lines of code where the channel name is generated/calculated? I tried looking, but it looks like quite a big maze. ast_channel_alloc() in main/channel.c ---cut--- if

Re: [asterisk-users] anyone from Joplin, MO

2008-05-15 Thread Sherwood McGowan
Bryson Medlock wrote: I'm trying to convince my employer to deploy an Asterisk based system, but one member of the leadership team is against it. The rest of the team is for it, but he's convinced them that we should find other organisations in the Joplin, MO area who are using Asterisk

Re: [asterisk-users] are channel names unique

2008-05-15 Thread Benjamin Jacob
So I thought!! Thanks guys. But a query with regards to this : I need to send hangup commands based on these channel names only. So at any given point of time, for 'n' ongoing calls, will these 'n' channel names be different/ unique? If not, using AMI, how do we hangup a given channel? cheers

Re: [asterisk-users] are channel names unique

2008-05-15 Thread Russell Bryant
Benjamin Jacob wrote: So I thought!! Thanks guys. But a query with regards to this : I need to send hangup commands based on these channel names only. So at any given point of time, for 'n' ongoing calls, will these 'n' channel names be different/ unique? If not, using AMI, how do we

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk for Larg

2008-05-15 Thread Bhrugu Mehta
hi, I have not tested that but I have seen 100 agents configure with asterisk. thnks Bhrugu mehta On 5/15/08, gmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is Asterisk practically stable and reliable for a larg Enterprise has say a 1 phones , is there any case study like this?

[asterisk-users] caller-id on X100P fails frequently

2008-05-15 Thread Brian J. Murrell
I have a Wildcard FXO: Wildcard X100P (clone) in my Asterisk (1.4.17) machine and as of late, Caller-ID on it seems to be failing more frequently than not. Sometimes I get callerid.c:613 callerid_feed: Caller*ID failed checksum sometimes it fails without even that. In Zapata.conf I have:

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk for Larg

2008-05-15 Thread Matt Watson
You'd probably want to run something else to handle your registrations like OpenSER with that many phones. -- Matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bhrugu Mehta Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 8:31 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List -

Re: [asterisk-users] caller-id on X100P fails frequently

2008-05-15 Thread Daniel Lynes
Brian J. Murrell wrote: I have a Wildcard FXO: Wildcard X100P (clone) in my Asterisk (1.4.17) machine and as of late, Caller-ID on it seems to be failing more frequently than not. Sometimes I get callerid.c:613 callerid_feed: Caller*ID failed checksum sometimes it fails without even that.

[asterisk-users] ChanSpy not working - transmit frame type 64 warning

2008-05-15 Thread James Sneeringer
When I try to use ChanSpy, the following message is sent repeatedly to the console (wrapped for readability): WARNING[32125]: chan_sip.c:3709 sip_write: Asked to transmit frame type 64, while native formats is 0x4 (ulaw)(4) read/write = 0x4 (ulaw)(4)/0x4 (ulaw)(4) This appears to

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk for Larg

2008-05-15 Thread Sherwood McGowan
Matt Watson wrote: You'd probably want to run something else to handle your registrations like OpenSER with that many phones. -- Matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bhrugu Mehta Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 8:31 AM To: Asterisk

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Asterisk: Install Asterisk as non-root

2008-05-15 Thread James Sneeringer
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:30 AM, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 06:17:12PM +1000, Lee, John (Sydney) wrote: 5) Another article says that running as non-root will prevent ToS being used. What is ToS? Do I need to be concerned? Anybody wants to write something

[asterisk-users] *72 Telco Call Forwarding

2008-05-15 Thread Jeremy Mann
Is there a way to force asterisk to ignore the first ring of a call without using Wait() ? When I active *72 call forward on my analog lines from the telco, they always send a single ring and then do the forwarding. Asterisk picks up essentially a dead line and rings the phones which gets

[asterisk-users] Asterisk dropping around 2% of ALL calls ever since we moved to EM_W signalling?

2008-05-15 Thread Sherwood McGowan
Alright guys and gals, I'm a little lost, I'm primarily a SIP/IAX based guy, and have ended up with a Zap installation. Everything was fine with our old provider when we were using PRI, but the new provider screwed up on provisioning and we've been temporarily stuck with a pair of EM Wink T's.

[asterisk-users] how to find the logs for this problem

2008-05-15 Thread enediel gonzalez
Hello in extentions.conf I have the following menu [voicemenu-custom-3] comment = testmenunew alias_exten = 6004 include = default exten = s,1,Answer exten = s,2,Background(thank-you-for-calling) exten = s,3,Agi(agi://10.10.10.155/noaction) exten = s,4,Hangup There is a windows server who

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk dropping around 2% of ALL calls ever since we moved to EM_W signalling?

2008-05-15 Thread Matt Florell
Hello, I have quite a bit of experience with EM Wink T1s, and I have seen the problem you describe twice. In both cases it was either the carrier's equipment or the wiring somewhere between the carrier shelf and your equipment. In one case it was water in the line that would seem to cause the

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk dropping around 2% of ALL calls ever since we moved to EM_W signalling?

2008-05-15 Thread Sherwood McGowan
Matt Florell wrote: Hello, I have quite a bit of experience with EM Wink T1s, and I have seen the problem you describe twice. In both cases it was either the carrier's equipment or the wiring somewhere between the carrier shelf and your equipment. In one case it was water in the line that

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk dropping around 2% of ALL calls ever since we moved to EM_W signalling?

2008-05-15 Thread Don Pobanz
On Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:11 AM - Sherwood McGowan said ... we've been temporarily stuck with a pair of EM Wink T's. Ever since then, we've been dropping 1-2% of all calls (in or out) and even more strange, when a call gets dropped, a phantom call was being generated on the incoming

Re: [asterisk-users] *72 Telco Call Forwarding

2008-05-15 Thread Matt Watson
Is there any reason you don't want to use Wait()? However, I would use WaitForRing() myself - its also a great solution on dirty analog lines where you receive phantom calls. That being said, I don't know how to do it without using some form of Wait.. as far as I know zapata.conf doesn't

Re: [asterisk-users] Shared line appearance phones?

2008-05-15 Thread Brian McManus
I hate to bring up an old thread, however, I'm implementing SLA as well. I've got SLA working, my tunk executes slatrunk(line1), and my polycom 650 phone rings on the SIP subscribed line (button 1) I'm assuming slatrunk sends the calls to the SIP/station1 SIP device, so the call will always

Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom XML Files / asterisk

2008-05-15 Thread Robert McNaught
Yes, perhaps a script would always be better than hand-touching these files, and getting an XML editor only really makes it easier on the eyes. On the same subject, I have noticed that Snom and Linksys phones do not support FTP provisioning - only TFTP and HTTP. With TFTP being an insecure

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk dropping around 2% of ALL calls ever since we moved to EM_W signalling?

2008-05-15 Thread Steve Totaro
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Don Pobanz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:11 AM - Sherwood McGowan said ... we've been temporarily stuck with a pair of EM Wink T's. Ever since then, we've been dropping 1-2% of all calls (in or out) and even more strange, when a call

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk dropping around 2% of ALL calls ever since we moved to EM_W signalling?

2008-05-15 Thread Sherwood McGowan
Matt Florell wrote: Hello, I have quite a bit of experience with EM Wink T1s, and I have seen the problem you describe twice. In both cases it was either the carrier's equipment or the wiring somewhere between the carrier shelf and your equipment. In one case it was water in the line that

Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom XML Files / asterisk

2008-05-15 Thread Anthony Francis
I am confused how TFTP is less secure than HTTP. TFTP does not allow any browsing, ever. Neither technologies will allow the device to authenticate before downloading a configuration file, and both are easily secured by only permitting connections from specific hosts. Robert McNaught wrote:

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk dropping around 2% of ALL calls ever since we moved to EM_W signalling?

2008-05-15 Thread Sherwood McGowan
Steve Totaro wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Don Pobanz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:11 AM - Sherwood McGowan said ... we've been temporarily stuck with a pair of EM Wink T's. Ever since then, we've been dropping 1-2% of all calls (in or out) and

[asterisk-users] Number of meetme conferences

2008-05-15 Thread Wai Wu
Hi all, What is maximum number of three party conferences can a quadcore 3GHz system can handle? All the parties a setup with G.711 codec. ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To

Re: [asterisk-users] Number of meetme conferences

2008-05-15 Thread Sherwood McGowan
Wai Wu wrote: Hi all, What is maximum number of three party conferences can a quadcore 3GHz system can handle? All the parties a setup with G.711 codec. ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users

Re: [asterisk-users] Number of meetme conferences

2008-05-15 Thread Matt Florell
Hello, The capacity greatly depends on the rate of calls entering and leaving those conferences. I see that you do call center systems so I would guess that the rate would be fairly rapid. It is really something you have to test and see. Using VICIDIAL in performance testing mode I have gotten

Re: [asterisk-users] Number of meetme conferences

2008-05-15 Thread Wai Wu
In many call center applications, conferences are usually long and only a small number them are necessary in any given time. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Florell Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 2:24 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List

Re: [asterisk-users] voicemail not sending emails

2008-05-15 Thread Roberto Milani
did that and still no email is asterisk logging something somewhere about errors in saving files or so? nothing shows up in the /tmp directory anyway I have verbose and debug set to 100 in the CLI but I see no error messages HELP! Roberto On May 15, 2008, at 1:29 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

[asterisk-users] Citel Gateways

2008-05-15 Thread Jonathan C. Bailey
Everyone- We're looking at using some Citel gateways to serve one of our sites (40 extensions, Toshiba phones). I've found that people seem to like the product from demos, but I was wondering how many have some of the gateways in production and if they seem to do the job for the long run.

Re: [asterisk-users] Where does menuselect save your choices?

2008-05-15 Thread Sherwood McGowan
Sherwood McGowan wrote: Just a quick question, wanted to see if anyone knew where the menuselect app stored your choices. I think it's menuselect.makeopts but I'm not sure...just thought someone might know. Sherwood McGowan P.S. I'll post here if I figure it out before there's a

[asterisk-users] Where does menuselect save your choices?

2008-05-15 Thread Sherwood McGowan
Just a quick question, wanted to see if anyone knew where the menuselect app stored your choices. I think it's menuselect.makeopts but I'm not sure...just thought someone might know. Sherwood McGowan P.S. I'll post here if I figure it out before there's a response :)

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk for Larg

2008-05-15 Thread Al Baker
Whoa - you need some highly reliable, TELCO quality iron with some 1st class support for that. Do you realize what your downtime in that environment would would cost you ? Look, * is cool , fun an customizeable etc. But it IS NOT carrier grade hardware and it is NOT software produced in

Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom XML Files / asterisk

2008-05-15 Thread Atis Lezdins
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Robert McNaught [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The way I understood it is that TFTP does not allow you to set a username and password in a URL like tftp://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is not possible when setting option 66 Is it not possible to require a username

Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom XML Files / asterisk

2008-05-15 Thread Michael Graves
On Thu, 15 May 2008 10:23:14 -0700, Robert McNaught wrote: Yes, perhaps a script would always be better than hand-touching these files, and getting an XML editor only really makes it easier on the eyes. On the same subject, I have noticed that Snom and Linksys phones do not support FTP

Re: [asterisk-users] New Asterisk Deployment - Need some tips

2008-05-15 Thread Al Baker
The items most people do not address are: - QA - How do You tell if you you having Jitter,Packet Loss etc BEFORE the user scream - Disaster Recovery - from the small - DNS smokes - To Larger - * box with 96 ports smokes - Insuring EACH and EVERY piece ox network SUPPORT and USES QoS -Vendor SLA

[asterisk-users] QOS and Asterisk

2008-05-15 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I will have a small shop with ~4 phones using an HP server with Asterisk on it, it has two NICS and so I planned on plugging one into the cable modem, and the other into the switch. I was going to let this box perform NAT for the company but I am concerned about QOS for the VOIP portion.

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk for Larg (Al Baker)

2008-05-15 Thread Greg Kennedy
I don't see why you couldn't use asterisk in a setup that large. It would require a number of servers, and SER to handle the registrations, and call routing and use asterisk for what its good at, ivr/vm. ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by

Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom XML Files / asterisk

2008-05-15 Thread Robert McNaught
Limiting to HTTP would be OK if every customer had a static IP - if you have small offices, then they maybe on DSL without static IP, which makes that difficult - you could of course force your users to have static IPs. Robert On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Atis Lezdins [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[asterisk-users] playing .gsm sounds through a web browser

2008-05-15 Thread Julian Lyndon-Smith
I have a lot of recordings from asterisk in a .gsm format. I would like to play these files from a web browser (IE, firefox and opera) What do I need to do in order to achieve this goal ? Thanks Julian ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by

Re: [asterisk-users] playing .gsm sounds through a web browser

2008-05-15 Thread Andreas van dem Helge
A posting to the correct mailing list? Or at least a post with the details of the issue? What OS? Can you play these same .gsm files in any media player your OS might have? On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Julian Lyndon-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a lot of recordings from asterisk in

Re: [asterisk-users] playing .gsm sounds through a web browser

2008-05-15 Thread Tilghman Lesher
On Thursday 15 May 2008 18:26:15 Julian Lyndon-Smith wrote: I have a lot of recordings from asterisk in a .gsm format. I would like to play these files from a web browser (IE, firefox and opera) What do I need to do in order to achieve this goal ? Allegedly, quicktime can play these files. I

Re: [asterisk-users] playing .gsm sounds through a web browser

2008-05-15 Thread Mark Hamilton
Doesn't he mean something like when the recording happens, he'd like to go http://192.168.1.1/recordings and then when he sees the list of *.gsm recordings, he clicks on it, and the serverside starts playing it? I think you'll need a Quicktime client (as as plugin to your brownser) on your PC

Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom XML Files / asterisk

2008-05-15 Thread Mark Hamilton
Since, we're on the the topic of phones, and TFTPing.. if someone on this thread has some knowledge of putting configs on Cisco IP Phone 7960, can they please contact me off list? I've done the configs via tftp, etc but anything into the speaker/handset relating to voice doesn't work.

Re: [asterisk-users] playing .gsm sounds through a web browser

2008-05-15 Thread Julian Lyndon-Smith
Mark Hamilton wrote: Doesn't he mean something like when the recording happens, he'd like to go http://192.168.1.1/recordings and then when he sees the list of *.gsm recordings, he clicks on it, and the serverside starts playing it? Yes, thanks ;) I think you'll need a Quicktime client (as

Re: [asterisk-users] playing .gsm sounds through a web browser

2008-05-15 Thread David Backeberg
No, no, no. Don't try to play them directly as gsm files. Convert them to wav on the fly, when demanded by the user from the webpage. Have a php, or perl, or whatever script call sox, and push the wav to the user. sox runs so fast that you can do the conversion on-demand. You can decide what to

Re: [asterisk-users] playing .gsm sounds through a web browser

2008-05-15 Thread Gavin Hollinger
Hint: core show file formats If you specify your recording format as WAV you will get a gsm file mangled to play in most browsers. You can convert your existing files using SOX. See http://www.callbandit.com/ for a sample gsm encoded WAV file. ___ --

Re: [asterisk-users] Citel Gateways

2008-05-15 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 01:59:39PM -0500, Jonathan C. Bailey wrote: We're looking at using some Citel gateways to serve one of our sites (40 extensions, Toshiba phones). I've found that people seem to like the product from demos, but I was wondering how many have some of the gateways in

Re: [asterisk-users] QOS and Asterisk

2008-05-15 Thread Michael Graves
On Thu, 15 May 2008 15:39:26 -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote: I will have a small shop with ~4 phones using an HP server with Asterisk on it, it has two NICS and so I planned on plugging one into the cable modem, and the other into the switch. I was going to let this box perform NAT for the

[asterisk-users] Any one used Nortel or Cisco Phones for Asterisk

2008-05-15 Thread oviaprasad.dharuman
Dear All Please provide me the details how to configure hard phone with Asterisk? If any one used Nortel phones Or Cisco IP phone 7940 Please let me know how to configure at the asterisk side as well as in the Device. Thanks in advance Regards Ovia Please do not print this email unless

Re: [asterisk-users] Any one used Nortel or Cisco Phones for Asterisk

2008-05-15 Thread Michael Graves
What you're asking is well documented in many places. Do your research. Google is your friend. www.voip-info.org also. Michael On Fri, 16 May 2008 08:19:30 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All Please provide me the details how to configure hard phone with Asterisk? If any one

[asterisk-users] A couple of newbie questions

2008-05-15 Thread Richard Spencer
Hi Everyone, I'm pretty new to asterisk but coming from a call center background; needless to say I am amazed. Here is my current dilemma; but first some info on my setup. I have 3 public IP's from my provider...my LAN sits under one behind a Sonicwall TZ-180, while my trixbox sits on another

[asterisk-users] queue autopause

2008-05-15 Thread Rilawich Ango
Hi all, There is a setting called autopause in queue.conf to pause a queue member if they fail to answer a call. The autopause setting will pause the agent even when they are on the line. I want to know if it is possible to pause the queue member only when they don't answer after timeout? ango

Re: [asterisk-users] A couple of newbie questions

2008-05-15 Thread Matthew Gibson
Hi Richard, I'm not sure about the sonic wall issues, but for canadian providers try out www.les.net and www.unlimitel.ca We've had good success with both in the past. Thanks, Matt On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Richard Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm pretty new to

Re: [asterisk-users] Shared line appearance phones?

2008-05-15 Thread Andreas van dem Helge
The docs as far as I can tell are not correct. E.g. Zaptel is required (because it seems that it uses MeetMe) but none of that is documented. So yes please do see if you can make the feature work and please post a working example config for a Polycom phone. On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 8:10 PM,

Re: [asterisk-users] QOS and Asterisk

2008-05-15 Thread Al Baker
You SHOULD be concerned with QOS. All the way to an including the vendor or your service cold really sucku Michael Graves wrote: On Thu, 15 May 2008 15:39:26 -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote: I will have a small shop with ~4 phones using an HP server with Asterisk on it, it has two NICS