I'm playing around with FreeSWITCH and everything plays very nicely. I'm using the freeswitch-meta-vanilla Debian package on Debian 7.

I'm "only" using FreeSWITCH for calls between subscribers, voicemail and outgoing calls to a SIP gateway - so the vanilla installation seems rather "overkill" - especially for a production environment.

I've tried to - on a clean Debian - install the freeswitch-meta-default including freeswitch-conf-minimal. It does install some things, but it seems as if some basic functionality is not working - such as fs_cli etc.

What is the best way for a very clean FreeSWITCH similar to the vanilla installation, but without any users, dial plans and such...?