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diff --git a/system/freeswitch/README b/system/freeswitch/README index 1dbb2947636ed..d3a668a044787 100644 --- a/system/freeswitch/README +++ b/system/freeswitch/README @@ -1,20 +1,24 @@ FreeSWITCH is a scalable open source cross-platform telephony platform -designed to route and interconnect popular communication protocols using -audio, video, text or any other form of media. It was created in 2006 to -fill the void left by proprietary commercial solutions. FreeSWITCH also -provides a stable telephony platform on which many telephony applications -can be developed using a wide range of free tools. +designed to route and interconnect popular communication protocols +using audio, video, text or any other form of media. It was +created in 2006 to fill the void left by proprietary commercial +solutions. FreeSWITCH also provides a stable telephony platform on +which many telephony applications can be developed using a wide range +of free tools. Unlike other SlackBuilds which have a /usr installation prefix, this -script will install FreeSWITCH to /opt/freeswitch instatead. This is done -to simplify the build process since FreeSWITCH attemps to install itself -into many non-standard directories in the prefix directory. Therefore, -it is installed as a self-contained and easily-removable location in /opt. +script will install FreeSWITCH to /opt/freeswitch instatead. This +is done to simplify the build process since FreeSWITCH attemps to +install itself into many non-standard directories in the prefix +directory. Therefore, it is installed as a self-contained and +easily-removable location in /opt. -This script also expects there to be a user and group called "freeswitch", -with uid and gid of 269 (see http://slackbuilds.org/uid_gid.txt): +This script also expects there to be a user and group +called "freeswitch", with uid and gid of 269 (see +http://slackbuilds.org/uid_gid.txt): # groupadd -g 269 freeswitch -# useradd -u 269 -d /opt/freeswitch -s /bin/bash -g freeswitch freeswitch +# useradd -u 269 -d /opt/freeswitch \ + -s /bin/bash -g freeswitch freeswitch If you execute the script without creating this user and group, it won't build the FreeSWITCH package. |