Install freeswitch compiled with odbc PostgreSQL on debian wheezy

Mathias WOLFF published on
6 min, 1064 words

Categories: VoIP

This is my first howto in english. As I will release in some days, my project name pyfreebilling (wholesale voip platefom based on Freeswitch, PostgeSQL and Django), i write the first installation step : howto compile and install freeswitch / odbc and postgresql on debian wheezy.

Prerequisites

You need to install these packages :

apt-get install git-core build-essential autoconf automake libtool libncurses5 libncurses5-dev gawk libjpeg-dev zlib1g-dev pkg-config libssl-dev libpq-dev unixodbc-dev odbc-postgresql postgresql postgresql-client

Configuration

You download freeswitch using git :

git clone git://git.freeswitch.org/freeswitch.git

go to the new freeswitch directory and start bootstrap :

./bootstrap.sh

and configure :

./configure

After, you need to edit modules.conf to selected required modules. For pyfreebilling, you need these modules :

applications/mod_commands
applications/mod_db
applications/mod_dptools
applications/mod_esf
applications/mod_esl
applications/mod_expr
applications/mod_fifo
applications/mod_fsv
applications/mod_hash
applications/mod_memcache
applications/mod_nibblebill
applications/mod_spandsp
codecs/mod_amr
codecs/mod_bv
codecs/mod_b64
codecs/mod_g723_1
codecs/mod_g729
codecs/mod_h26x
codecs/mod_vp8
codecs/mod_ilbc
codecs/mod_speex
dialplans/mod_dialplan_xml
endpoints/mod_loopback
endpoints/mod_sofia
event_handlers/mod_cdr_pg_csv
event_handlers/mod_event_socket
formats/mod_local_stream
formats/mod_native_file
formats/mod_sndfile
formats/mod_tone_stream
languages/mod_lua
languages/mod_spidermonkey
#languages/mod_yaml
loggers/mod_console
loggers/mod_logfile
loggers/mod_syslog
xml_int/mod_xml_rpc
xml_int/mod_xml_scgi

you also need to edit the Makefile of cdr_pg_csv module. The file si located here : src/mod/event_handlers/mod_cdr_pg_csv/Makefile . Copy and past the following code :

UNAME := $(shell uname -s)
ifeq ($(UNAME),SunOS)
ISA64 := $(shell isainfo -n)
LOCAL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/include/postgresql
ifneq (,$(findstring m64,$(CFLAGS)))
LOCAL_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/pgsql-9.1/lib/$(ISA64) -R/usr/pgsql-9.1/lib/$(ISA64) -lpq -static
else
LOCAL_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/pgsql-9.1/lib -R/usr/pgsql-9.1/lib -lpq -static
endif
else
LOCAL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/include/postgresql
LOCAL_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/pgsql-9.1/lib -lpq -static
endif
include ../../../../build/modmake.rules

Compilation & installation

Now, we are ready for make, so do :

make & make install

Now we need to create a freeswitch user :

adduser --disabled-password  --quiet --system --home /usr/local/freeswitch --gecos "FreeSWITCH Voice Platform" --ingroup daemon freeswitch
and to apply the rule to freeswitch user :
chown -R freeswitch:daemon /usr/local/freeswitch/
chmod -R o-rwx /usr/local/freeswitch/

Init script

and now, we need to create the init script to start and stop freeswitch :

nano /etc/init.d/freeswitch
#!/bin/bash
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          freeswitch
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Description:       Freeswitch debian init script.
# Author:            Matthew Williams
#
### END INIT INFO
# Do NOT "set -e"

# PATH should only include /usr/* if it runs after the mountnfs.sh script
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
DESC="Freeswitch"
NAME=freeswitch
DAEMON=/usr/local/freeswitch/bin/$NAME
DAEMON_ARGS="-nc"
PIDFILE=/usr/local/freeswitch/run/$NAME.pid
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME

FS_USER=freeswitch
FS_GROUP=freeswitch

# Exit if the package is not installed
[ -x "$DAEMON" ] || exit 0

# Read configuration variable file if it is present
[ -r /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME

# Load the VERBOSE setting and other rcS variables
. /lib/init/vars.sh

# Define LSB log_* functions.
# Depend on lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) to ensure that this file is present.
. /lib/lsb/init-functions

#
# Function that sets ulimit values for the daemon
#
do_setlimits() {
        ulimit -c unlimited
        ulimit -d unlimited
        ulimit -f unlimited
        ulimit -i unlimited
        ulimit -n 999999
        ulimit -q unlimited
        ulimit -u unlimited
        ulimit -v unlimited
        ulimit -x unlimited
        ulimit -s 240
        ulimit -l unlimited
        return 0
}

#
# Function that starts the daemon/service
#
do_start()
{
    # Set user to run as
        if [ $FS_USER ] ; then
      DAEMON_ARGS="`echo $DAEMON_ARGS` -u $FS_USER"
        fi
    # Set group to run as
        if [ $FS_GROUP ] ; then
          DAEMON_ARGS="`echo $DAEMON_ARGS` -g $FS_GROUP"
        fi

        # Return
        #   0 if daemon has been started
        #   1 if daemon was already running
        #   2 if daemon could not be started
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON --test > /dev/null --
                || return 1
        do_setlimits
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON --background --
                $DAEMON_ARGS
                || return 2
        # Add code here, if necessary, that waits for the process to be ready
        # to handle requests from services started subsequently which depend
        # on this one.  As a last resort, sleep for some time.
}

#
# Function that stops the daemon/service
#
do_stop()
{
        # Return
        #   0 if daemon has been stopped
        #   1 if daemon was already stopped
        #   2 if daemon could not be stopped
        #   other if a failure occurred
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5 --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME
        RETVAL="$?"
        [ "$RETVAL" = 2 ] && return 2
        # Wait for children to finish too if this is a daemon that forks
        # and if the daemon is only ever run from this initscript.
        # If the above conditions are not satisfied then add some other code
        # that waits for the process to drop all resources that could be
        # needed by services started subsequently.  A last resort is to
        # sleep for some time.
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --retry=0/30/KILL/5 --exec $DAEMON
        [ "$?" = 2 ] && return 2
        # Many daemons don't delete their pidfiles when they exit.
        rm -f $PIDFILE
        return "$RETVAL"
}

#
# Function that sends a SIGHUP to the daemon/service
#
do_reload() {
        #
        # If the daemon can reload its configuration without
        # restarting (for example, when it is sent a SIGHUP),
        # then implement that here.
        #
        start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 1 --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME
        return 0
}

case "$1" in
  start)
        [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME"
        do_start
        case "$?" in
                0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;
                2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;
        esac
        ;;
  stop)
        [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME"
        do_stop
        case "$?" in
                0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;
                2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;
        esac
        ;;
  status)
       status_of_proc -p $PIDFILE $DAEMON $NAME && exit 0 || exit $?
       ;;
  #reload|force-reload)
        #
        # If do_reload() is not implemented then leave this commented out
        # and leave 'force-reload' as an alias for 'restart'.
        #
        #log_daemon_msg "Reloading $DESC" "$NAME"
        #do_reload
        #log_end_msg $?
        #;;
  restart|force-reload)
        #
        # If the "reload" option is implemented then remove the
        # 'force-reload' alias
        #
        log_daemon_msg "Restarting $DESC" "$NAME"
        do_stop
        case "$?" in
          0|1)
                do_start
                case "$?" in
                        0) log_end_msg 0 ;;
                        1) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Old process is still running
                        *) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Failed to start
                esac
                ;;
          *)
                # Failed to stop
                log_end_msg 1
                ;;
        esac
        ;;
  *)
        #echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2
        echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
        exit 3
        ;;
esac

exit 0

mate this script executable :

chmod +x /etc/init.d/freeswitch
update-rc.d freeswitch defaults

And now ?

Enjoy ! But, don't forget, you need to configure freeswitch and PostgreSQL (i will write an article explaining how to do)