Re: useful patches for everyone

That's what we do today, but the idea is not to have to do any "extra" work,
neither having to comment/uncomment things out, nor have to add/remove
config files.

Having the start-at-boot directive allows you to just keep the configuration
defined, but the smsc does not start.
So anytime you need it, you just use the start-smsc and then the stop-smsc.
This is much cleaner IMHO than having to do all the extra manual work, no
matter how easy that manual work it may be.

A similar discussion was held some months ago, can't remember what new
directive it was, where the directive was finally added, since it was seen
it was helpful.
Not all directives are used by everyone or may be useful for everybody, that
happens on any piece of software, but does not mean it's not useful, nor
that it should not be added. I don't care about the WAP related parts of
Kannel for example, and that doesn't mean I believe they should not exist.
Adding useful things to Kannel is something that makes Kannel a better
product, so I don't really see why not to add it. Maybe if it was something
complicated that really messed up with the code, could be, but this is
definitely not the case.

Just my 2 cents.

2011/4/18 Nikos Balkanas <[email protected]>

> What about the HTTP command start-smsc:
>
> It reloads the smsc and starts them from configuration. Therefore you could
> have the smsc commented out at start, then enable it in the configuration
> and start it from the web interface, without stooping kannel. Is that not
> adequate?
>
> BR,
> Nikos
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Gottgens" <
> [email protected]>
> To: "Alvaro Cornejo" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Alexander Malysh" <[email protected]>; "Kannel Devel" <
> [email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 11:24 PM
>
> Subject: Re: useful patches for everyone
>
>
>  Hello,
>>
>> i second that. Having the ability to start kannel with some of the binds
>> down
>> is so much easier in HA/Failover environments.
>>
>> Monday, April 18, 2011, 8:31:05 PM, you wrote:
>>
>> AC> Hi Alex
>>
>> AC> Another use would be when having backup links. I do use over 20 modems
>> AC> but not have all enabled at start. In order to not to have to reload
>> AC> kannel when a new modem is needed, I do start kannel and then stop all
>> AC> the backup modems and I have to do the same whenever I restart kannel
>> AC> or the server
>>
>> AC> I'll love to have this feature in standard kannel
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Thomas                            mailto:[email protected]
>>
>>
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