Directory structure and file locations

AllStarLink
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After a fresh/new install of ASL3 I recognise the typical Linux directory structure.

But then after a while of digging around a bit I find that some things are not where I thought they would be.

My question isn't about the default structure as such but about where to place files following a fresh install.

Is there a convention for ASL3?

So by example. Statements in the rpt.conf file that call scripts are run by the asterisk user account.

Where would be the best place to locate these scripts? If these scripts play sound files, where should these sound files be located?

Should there be a different location for housekeeping scripts run by the root user?

The above of course ties in with the in-built schedular and also crontab.

Crontab in particular threw me (even after reading the guidance in Scheduled Events - AllStarLink Manual ) because the account used to login to asl3 has a different crontab to the one from asl-menu when you drop into a bash shell as root. Plus this is different from any crontab created using sudo crontab -u asterisk -e

Phew.

Anyway...any suggestions for a directory/file structure?

Tom.

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ASL3 follows standard Linux file and configuration conventions, specifically so that common/standard Linux guidance will work. Configuration-related items go in /etc/asterisk/custom. Scripts should go in /usr/local/bin. Crontabs for asterisk can be edited with sudo crontab -u asterisk -e or you can run them from /etc/cron.d using the "full cron" format. Custom sound files can go in the asterisk custom sound directory (/usr/local/share/asterisk/sounds) or the recordings directory (/var/lib/asterisk/sounds/custom) however note that only the former is in the sound search path for asterisk.