Re: [Astlinux-users] My Custom TTS Ulaw Sound Files Delete on Reboot of Thin Client Running Astlinux

[Cody A. <ald...@gm...>]

Lonnie,

Symlink is symbolic link in Linux? Can you recommend a book for a Windows
guy that goes back to the days of DOS to understand Linux better?

Also, I had previously had to put in the entire path to the ulaw files in
my dialplan. For example, /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/custom-sounds-filename.
Now that I have made the custom-sounds persistent, can I just use
/custom-sounds/filename such as in Playback(/custom-sounds/filename)  ?

Thank you so much for your help. I enjoy learning this stuff!

-Cody

On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 9:25 AM, Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lo...>
wrote:

> Hi Cody,
>
> Great to hear you got it working.
>
> > I don't understand persistent directories yet.
>
> As typical with embedded appliances, AstLinux's /var/ mount type is
> "tmpfs" (RAM based, non-persistent).  The flash storage (persistent) is
> mounted type ext2.
>
> AstLinux uses a "symbolic link" (ln -s ...) in places to create references
> on the non-persistent /var/ tree that points to persistent storage found in
> the /mnt/kd/ tree as well as to the read-only AstLinux ext2 flash image.
>
> These "symlinks" can be confusing to follow at first, for example
> following your "custom-sounds" case ...
> --
> pbx ~ # ls -l /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/custom-sounds
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            38 Aug 27 16:40
> /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/custom-sounds -> /var/tmp/asterisk/sounds/
> custom-sounds
>
> pbx ~ # ls -l /var/tmp/asterisk/sounds/custom-sounds
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            21 Aug 27 16:41
> /var/tmp/asterisk/sounds/custom-sounds -> /mnt/kd/custom-sounds
> --
> Note the " -> " indicates a symlink reference.
>
> Remember you should only be adding/editing files in the /mnt/kd/ tree
> path, though if you know a symlink points to the /mnt/kd/ tree path you can
> use the symlink name as a convenience if you wish.
>
> Lonnie
>
>
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