This is of course completely up to the end user what configuration they want to use. they can choose to copy any other config set in to place if this default doesn't suit their needs. we choose this as a default to get people to have as easy as possible of a first time experience, and we have found this greatly reduces first time user questions to have a default config that allows them to try some functionality before they learn how to configure things fully. <span></span><br><br>On Friday, June 26, 2015, Stanislav Sinyagin <<a href="mailto:ssinyagin@gmail.com">ssinyagin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">maybe one of the minimal configs would be more suitable. The vanilla<br>
config has too many things that are great for a demo, but useless for<br>
a production system.<br>
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<br>
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On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 3:24 AM, William King<br>
<<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'william.king@quentustech.com')">william.king@quentustech.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> If the directory /etc/freeswitch/ already exists, then the default<br>
> configs will not be copied into there. Too many people were not able to<br>
> get FS installed and working because they didn't know that FS had a<br>
> special requirement, different from other Debian packages, that required<br>
> you to copy the configs over yourself.<br>
><br>
> There is an argument to copy over only a bare minimal freeswitch.xml file.<br>
><br>
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> On 6/23/15 3:50 PM, Stanislav Sinyagin wrote:<br>
>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Ken Rice <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'krice@freeswitch.org')">krice@freeswitch.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> FS-7669 When installing from Debian packaging if you don’t have the<br>
>>> /etc/freeswitch directory, we will install the default packages for you. If<br>
>>> you already have this directory, we’ll let you deal with your own configs.<br>
>><br>
>> are you sure you want to do this? Now all deployment scripts will have<br>
>> to delete /etc/freeswitch on a freshly installed server before<br>
>> deploying the target config.<br>
>><br>
>> I think it's sufficient to print a reminder at the end of the package<br>
>> installation about the config directory. The vanilla configuration is<br>
>> anyway not supposed to run on a production server.<br>
>><br>
>> If you want a clean start, you can check the existence of<br>
>> /etc/freeswitch before launching the daemon.<br>
>><br>
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