- After downloading the Mac OS X Developer tools, and compliing and installing Asterisk 10.7.1 from source successfully, I’ve had some mega problems installing FreePBX. 1st off, not sure if it’s part of the problem, but when installing Asterisk, the /usr/sbin/safeasterisk script wasn’t installed.
- Asterisk Launcher is a native MacOS X GUI application to control the Asterisk telephony server software running on the same Macintosh computer. Asterisk Launcher shows the current status of the Asterisk server daemon and allows it to start and stop the daemon and to reload its configuration.
- Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more. Asterisk does voice over IP in three protocols, and can interoperate with almost all.
Sep 09, 2020 FreePBX is the #1 open source graphical user interface (GUI) for use with Asterisk. FreePBX makes it easier to build a custom phone system to fit your needs with its feature-rich core and many available modules and add-ons. The FreePBX Distro includes Asterisk, Linux, and all the tools you need to build your custom PBX.
EDIT: This post have been getting very many views lately so ‘fess up in the comments if you want a part 2 with more advanced and new ways to use Mac OS X commands and wildcard characters.
This tip/post is going to be about several common Mac OS X commands and wildcard characters I have discovered, at work, that is useful to understand and know how to use. First off, wildcard characters are special characters such as * and ? that help you to find groups of filenames that have something in common.
For example, say I have a couple of files that I want to find in my home directory. My home directory is cluttered with junk files that I never take the time to organize. But somewhere within that junk pile of files there lay 8 files I would like. Their filenames are ssw_idl.a285, ssw_idl.r391, ssw_idl.z988, ssw_idl.c293, and the other 4 files are named similarly (“ssw_idl.” followed by a letter, then 3 numbers).
Open up terminal (or something similar like X11’s xterm) and type in
Cramming time:
ls
then enter. This lists all your files and folders in the current directory. Cramming time:
cd
– changes directories (directories = folders). cd ..
to go up a directory and cd FOLDERNAME
to go to a folder in the current directory.rm
– deletes files/folders.mkdir
– makes directories (folders).say 'Hello!'
– computer says ‘Hello!’more textFileName
– opens up a text file for viewing inside the command line/shell. Now the actual reason I wrote up this post was to show you how to display only certain files with similar names. So we’ll go on to learn about wildcard characters (to be completely honest, I am a noob to this whole wildcard thing; I am stilling learning also), and then about how to use wildcard characters in the Mac OS X command line. Skip ahead if you already know about wildcard characters.
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Mac Os X Update
*
– this star means “everything”.ls *
will display all folders and all files within those folders.?
– means any character. ??
means any two characters. So basically ls ??*
will only display files/folders that have filenames 2 or more characters long.alphabet and numbers
– typing in any letters or numbers means that files/folders must have those exact letters/numbers.ls *.jpg
– lists all files that are jpeg images (.jpg extension)The “.” (backslash then dot with no space, in case you couldn’t see it well) means a literal dot. No backslash before the dot would mean just any single character except for a new line (n).
ls a*
– lists files/folders starting with an “a”.ls *.*
– lists only files because folders don’t have a dot in their name.ls [a-z]
– lists only folders with a one character letter for their name.ls frame[0-9]
– lists any files/folders starting with “frame” and then any 1 number.Asterisk For Mac Os X 10 11
A very nicely made reference page for Mac OS X Commands:
http://www.ss64.com/osx/
http://www.ss64.com/osx/
Any comments welcome! Show me something cool & new!
Asterisk installs on linux mostly. I believe the last time i used it, it came built on a CentOS.
if you want to run it on a Mac (or windows for that matter) you can run it as a virtual machine.
You can look into Parallels, VMWare Fusion, or VirtualBox. Any one these will allow you to run a Linux OS with Asterisk Installed on your Mac.
But from what I've seen it can run as a native OSX application.
However there doesn't appear to be any recent posts about it. I would do some reading and perhaps make a few posts on the Asterisk forums.