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Bug#44402; Package isdnutils.
debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.orgPaul Slootman
Subject: Bug#44402: WISH: better documentation of chargeint feature
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Just spend the last four hours finding out, why the chargehup/chargeint
feature of isdnlog didn't work. The documentation is not very good. The
information is hidden in the manpage of callerid.conf and it's not mentioned in
the manpage for isdnlog, where it should be as well. The problem is that
isdnlog needs an INTERFACE entry in callerid.conf for the corresponding number
or it doesn't calculate nor set the new chargeint number.
Please add the following (simple) information to the following files and it
will make it obvious how to use it (actually isdnlog should bring up an
errormessage, if chargeint is configured but it can't find an INTERFACE entry
for the number, but that's a problem for the developers and I might send them
this email too):
callerid.conf:
add an "INTERFACE = ippp0" to the T-Online entry or even better add an entry:
[NUMBER]
NUMBER = 12345
ALIAS = Internet Provider
INTERFACE = ippp0 # important for chargeint feature
isdnlog.DEVICE:
#hangup = 5:3 # enable chargehup with 5 / 3 seconds security gap
# add the interface to the corresponding
# number in callerid.conf to make this work
# (INTERFACE = DEVICE).
man isdnlog.8:
add an comment with the "-hX" option that it needs the INTERFACE option in
callerid.conf (see callerid.conf manpage)
ok, these are the obvious files where, I think, it should be. It is really
annoying that the isdn4linux people didn't think of a quick comment on this
option other than in the callerid.conf manpage. And I think it would help save
time and money (I had about 30 phonecalls to test, if the feature works with
this or that option turned off/on and after searching the net for hours I
found the right answer nearly by accident at the Suse Support database for what
I love Suse now...;-) ). It is a really cool feature especially if you have to
pay for your local calls like in Germany.
Kai
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-t
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Just spend the last four hours finding out, why the chargehup/chargeint
feature of isdnlog didn't work. The documentation is not very good. The
information is hidden in the manpage of callerid.conf and it's not mentioned in
the manpage for isdnlog, where it should be as well. The problem is that
isdnlog needs an INTERFACE entry in callerid.conf for the corresponding number
or it doesn't calculate nor set the new chargeint number.
Please add the following (simple) information to the following files and it
will make it obvious how to use it (actually isdnlog should bring up an
errormessage, if chargeint is configured but it can't find an INTERFACE entry
for the number, but that's a problem for the developers and I might send them
this email too):
callerid.conf:
add an "INTERFACE = ippp0" to the T-Online entry or even better add an entry:
[NUMBER]
NUMBER = 12345
ALIAS = Internet Provider
INTERFACE = ippp0 # important for chargeint feature
isdnlog.DEVICE:
#hangup = 5:3 # enable chargehup with 5 / 3 seconds security gap
# add the interface to the corresponding
# number in callerid.conf to make this work
# (INTERFACE = DEVICE).
man isdnlog.8:
add an comment with the "-hX" option that it needs the INTERFACE option in
callerid.conf (see callerid.conf manpage)
ok, these are the obvious files where, I think, it should be. It is really
annoying that the isdn4linux people didn't think of a quick comment on this
option other than in the callerid.conf manpage. And I think it would help save
time and money (I had about 30 phonecalls to test, if the feature works with
this or that option turned off/on and after searching the net for hours I
found the right answer nearly by accident at the Suse Support database for what
I love Suse now...;-) ). It is a really cool feature especially if you have to
pay for your local calls like in Germany.
Kai
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On Sun 05 Sep 1999, Kai Duebbert wrote:
>
> Just spend the last four hours finding out, why the chargehup/chargeint
> feature of isdnlog didn't work. The documentation is not very good. The
No, it's not... The isdnlog people are more concerned for many features
for documenting them all :-(
It is worse with the new version that they are working on currently. It's
been more or less unusable for months now, and they are still adding new
things to it before making sure that everything works properly (and is
documented!) before continuing...
> information is hidden in the manpage of callerid.conf and it's not mentioned in
> the manpage for isdnlog, where it should be as well. The problem is that
> isdnlog needs an INTERFACE entry in callerid.conf for the corresponding number
> or it doesn't calculate nor set the new chargeint number.
>
> Please add the following (simple) information to the following files and it
> will make it obvious how to use it (actually isdnlog should bring up an
Thanks for your suggestions, I'll add stuff to the next version of
isdnutils.
> errormessage, if chargeint is configured but it can't find an INTERFACE entry
> for the number, but that's a problem for the developers and I might send them
> this email too):
They'll probably say that it is not relevant anymore because the new
version is different anyway :-(
> I love Suse now...;-) ). It is a really cool feature especially if you have to
> pay for your local calls like in Germany.
I have to pay also, but I pay 0,10 for an initial connect, then
immediately a fixed rate of X per second (so it ALWAYS costs money for
every second you are connected, no fixed rate for every X seconds). E.g.
0 seconds connected costs 0,10, 1 seconds connected costs 0,1007, 2
seconds costs 0,1014, etc.
So the chargehup system is of no use in the Netherlands :-( (which is
partly why I've never really looked at how it works in detail).
Paul Slootman
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On Sun 05 Sep 1999, Kai Duebbert wrote:
>
> Just spend the last four hours finding out, why the chargehup/chargeint
> feature of isdnlog didn't work. The documentation is not very good. The
No, it's not... The isdnlog people are more concerned for many features
for documenting them all :-(
It is worse with the new version that they are working on currently. It's
been more or less unusable for months now, and they are still adding new
things to it before making sure that everything works properly (and is
documented!) before continuing...
> information is hidden in the manpage of callerid.conf and it's not mentioned in
> the manpage for isdnlog, where it should be as well. The problem is that
> isdnlog needs an INTERFACE entry in callerid.conf for the corresponding number
> or it doesn't calculate nor set the new chargeint number.
>
> Please add the following (simple) information to the following files and it
> will make it obvious how to use it (actually isdnlog should bring up an
Thanks for your suggestions, I'll add stuff to the next version of
isdnutils.
> errormessage, if chargeint is configured but it can't find an INTERFACE entry
> for the number, but that's a problem for the developers and I might send them
> this email too):
They'll probably say that it is not relevant anymore because the new
version is different anyway :-(
> I love Suse now...;-) ). It is a really cool feature especially if you have to
> pay for your local calls like in Germany.
I have to pay also, but I pay 0,10 for an initial connect, then
immediately a fixed rate of X per second (so it ALWAYS costs money for
every second you are connected, no fixed rate for every X seconds). E.g.
0 seconds connected costs 0,10, 1 seconds connected costs 0,1007, 2
seconds costs 0,1014, etc.
So the chargehup system is of no use in the Netherlands :-( (which is
partly why I've never really looked at how it works in detail).
Paul Slootman
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