[ymhee_bcex]

This is my first venture into asterisk land, so please be kind!

freshrps come with asterisk RPMs for Fedora FC4 and FC5. However, once I install, there are several sample config files, but nothing to start with. So, asterisk doesn't start (complaining reload_config: Unable to load config sip.conf
and a few other things). So, I am kinda lost. Is there a good tutorial that doesn't start with compile, and deals with Asterisk (rather than AAH)?

TIA
Felix

[chandave]

Got read the book:
Asterisk: The Future of Telephony

The authors licenced it under the Creative Commons license so the book is also available online.:

http://voipspeak.net/index.php?/content/view/33/2/

See ya...

d.c.

[ymhee_bcex]

Dave,

that's the one that I started with... but chapter 3 (installation) goes through compile/make/make install, and the results is very different from what I have after just point and clicking onto this rpm.

I can do all of this, of course, - but it would be a shame to have to do that (just because I am stupid) when there is an rpm available. RPMs are supposed to be for the less advanced ones, eh?

[chandave]

Do an "rpm -qilp asterisk-1.2.7.1-22.rhfc5.at.i386.rpm" (if it's local or "rpm-qilphttp&#58//dl.atrpms.net/all/asterisk-1.2.7.1-22.rhfc5.at.i386.rpm" if you haven't already fetched the RPM file) to get a listing of all the files in the RPM and where they were installed. From there, you should be able to:

• Determine where the asterisk binary was installed
• Find where the asterisk modules (.so) are located
• Lookup the location of the config files (sip.conf, modules.conf, extensions.conf, etc) or examples config files (usually in the /usr/share/doc)

From the looks of the RPM, it will install everything into the standard locations (configs - /etc/asterisk; modules - /usr/lib/asterisk/modules; binaries - /usr/sbin; AGI/sounds/moh - /var/lib/asterisk; logs - /var/log/asterisk; VMB/Monitor/Queues - /var/spool/asterisk)

RPMs are for those that do not wish to build the package themselves. For an complicated system like, Asterisk, there's more to it than just installing the package. This is the part you are having trouble with currently.

See ya...

d.c.