In asterisk.conf you specify:
- location, permissions and ownership for the socket used to connect from a remote console
- locations for various directories used by Asterisk to store configuration files, log files, library files and scripts
- default command line options
NOTE: Due to a bug in asterisk.c (bug report #6609), options specified in asterisk.conf will override any command line options specified when invoking asterisk. If you do not wish this behaviour, do not specify the respective option in asterisk.conf.
NOTE: The default asterisk.conf is broken in Ubuntu (Hardy) and Debian (Lenny), as it lists the directories in the global section, as opposed to the directories section.
Sample config
[files]
astctlpermissions => 700
astctlowner => asterisk
astctlgroup => asterisk
astctl => /var/run/asterisk.ctl
[directories]
astetcdir => /etc/asterisk
astspooldir => /var/spool/asterisk
astvarlibdir => /var/lib/asterisk
astdatadir => /var/lib/asterisk
astlogdir => /var/log/asterisk
astagidir => /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin
astrundir => /var/run
astmoddir => /usr/lib/asterisk/modules
[options]
verbose => 3 ; NOTE: this option prevents Asterisk forking on startup
alwaysfork => yes ; This will force a fork on startup if verbose is set
timestamp => yes
execincludes => yes
optiondebug => no
nofork => no
quiet => no
console => no
highpriority => no
initcrypto => no
nocolor = yes
dontwarn = no
dumpcore => yes
cache_record_files => yes
record_cache_dir => /private/tmp
transcode_via_sln => yes
transmit_silence_during_record = yes
maxcalls => 0
maxload => 0.0
runuser => asterisk
rungroup => asterisk
systemname => foobar
lockmode = lockfile | flock ; NOTE: This option was added in version1.6
astdatadir for example determines where asterisk looks for the sound files. If you set astdatadir to /usr/local/share/asterisk asterisk will look for files /usr/local/share/asterisk/sounds/test.* when you execute Playback(test).
July 26, 2017
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