asterisk users - May 2005 - zaptel.conf in /etc not /etc/asterisk - historical reason?

Hello all

I am in the process of trying to create a more fault tolerent HW setup
for my asterisk platform,  its all going well and I intend to do a
wiki about it once its seen to be working.

One thing gets me, and hopefully someone here can confirm my suspision
- why is zaptel.conf not with the other asterisk files

(I assume it is because its responsable for bringing up the hardware,
not strictly part of the asterisk application)

Would someone care to confirm my suspision, and if I'm wrong advise me why.

As a follow on to this - if i were to move it somewhere else, is it
the somthing.c file that  would need to be changed to reflect this
move.

Thanks
David

In article <eeb77e890505160327dc76ef7@mail.gmail.com>,
David John Walsh <davidjohnwalsh@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> One thing gets me, and hopefully someone here can confirm my suspision
> - why is zaptel.conf not with the other asterisk files
> 
> (I assume it is because its responsable for bringing up the hardware,
> not strictly part of the asterisk application)
Yes. Zaptel came before Asterisk and is independent of it. It is possible
for other non-Asterisk software to make use of Zaptel, without Asterisk
needing to be present at all.
> Would someone care to confirm my suspision, and if I'm wrong advise me
why.
> 
> As a follow on to this - if i were to move it somewhere else, is it
> the somthing.c file that  would need to be changed to reflect this
> move.
Don't know, but I have trouble understanding the need to move it.

The only place that it would make sense to move it to would be
/etc/zaptel/zaptel.conf, but since it is a single file, why bother?
It certainly doesn't belong in the /etc/asterisk directory.

Cheers
Tony
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