Now that we have installed Asterisk, there are some basic behaviors of Asterisk that we need to explore.
First, the major configuration files that need to be modified are in /etc/asterisk
, with the exception of DAHDI.conf
, which is in /etc
. Each file that ends in .conf
is a configuration file, which sets parameters for some specific part of Asterisk, as described in the previous section.
The layout of these configuration files is generally simple. Most configuration files will have a variable name, followed by =>
and its value. For instance, if there were a variable called cat
, which was to be set equal to Garfield, it would look like this:
cat => Garfield
In most configuration files, the variables stay set until they are either undefined or set to a new value. You must be careful in what order you set variables, as they may have inherited a different setting than you anticipate. Therefore, I suggest we set all needed values for every single instance, in case...