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FreeSWITCH 1.2 - Second Edition

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FreeSWITCH 1.2 - Second Edition

Overview of this book

FreeSWITCH is an open source telephony platform designed to facilitate the creation of voice and chat-driven products, scaling from a soft-phone to a PBX and even up to an enterprise-class soft-switch. It is always exciting to design and build your own telephony system to suit your needs, but the task is time-consuming and involves a lot of technical skill."FreeSWITCH 1.2" comes to your rescue to help you set up a telephony system quickly and securely using FreeSWITCH. It is rich with practical examples and will give you all of the information and skills needed to implement your own PBX system.You will start with a detailed description of the FreeSWITCH system architecture. Thereafter you will receive step-by-step instructions on how to set up basic and advanced features for your telephony platform.The book begins by introducing the architecture and workings of FreeSWITCH before detailing how to plan a telephone system and then moves on to the installation, configuration, and management of a feature-packed PBX. You will learn about maintaining a user directory, XML dial plan, and advanced dial plan concepts, call routing, and the extremely powerful Event Socket. You will finally learn about the online community and history of FreeSWITCH."FreeSWITCH 1.2" is an indispensable tool for novice and expert alike.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
FreeSWITCH 1.2
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Running FreeSWITCH in the background


In most cases, you will want FreeSWITCH to run in the background. In a Unix/Linux environment this is frequently called running as a daemon. In Windows this is called running as a service.

To launch FreeSWITCH as a daemon in Unix/Linux, execute the following command:

#>/usr/local/freeswitch/bin/freeswitch –nc

The various Linux and Unix distributions take different approaches to automatically running a daemon at system start up. Several initialization or init script examples are available on the FreeSWITCH wiki: wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Freeswitch_init. Consult the system administration documentation for your specific distribution for instructions on how to configure the init script to launch FreeSWITCH at system start up.

Windows requires just a few steps to have FreeSWITCH run as a service. They are as follows:

  1. Open a Windows command-line session (click on Start | Run, type cmd, and then click on the OK button).

  2. Change the directory into your FreeSWITCH...