NAME¶
isdnrate - Print telefon rates and various info from
rate-files(5).
SYNOPSIS¶
isdnrate -bbest -dday -ffrom
-hhour -llen -o -pprovs
-r vNN -s -ttakt
-vverbose -xexclude -C -Ddet
-Gdata -H -L -N -Osocketfile -Ppiddir
-Ssort -T -U -V -Xexplain -Z NUMBER
...
All options are optional.
DESCRIPTION¶
The
isdnrate program prints various information from
rate-files(5). It's
main purpose is the calculation of telefon rates from your location to an
arbitrary destination at a certain time and of a certain length for all the
providers in a rate-file.
NUMBER¶
A telefon number may be
- 1234 a local area number
- 01234 a different area in your country
- +12345 a foreign country
- China text for a foreign country
- Paris a town
- US a code as defined in country.dat.
- Internet a Service name (if option -s is also given).
Note that currently only city names in AT, DE, NL are supported plus some
international capitals.
Note also, spaces in country- or service names may be given as underscores.
OPTIONS¶
-bbest Print only
best providers. Default is all.
-crateconf Use
rateconf as provider selection file and
ignore setting in
isdn.conf.
-dday Calc rates for
day.
day can be one of
- dd day of current month
dd.mm day month
dd.mm.yy[yy] day, month, year
W Weekday
N Weekday - night
E Weekend
Default is now.
-ffrom Callers location. Default ist from
isdn.conf.
-hhour Time
hh[
:mm[
:ss]] of call. Default is
now.
-iratefile Use
ratefile (usually rate-CC.dat) as source for
telephone fees and ignore setting in
isdn.conf.
-llen Length of call in second. Default value is 153 secs.
-o Show only booked providers. These are providers, which are listed in
rate.conf.
-p provider[
,provider...] Print only info for given
provider(s).
provider is the provider number, without the
leading VBN, or
provider_variant if there are more variations, or
B for business providers.
-rv
NN Show only providers whose vbn begins with
NN. The vbn
is also known as provider prefix consisting of VBN and provider number.
-s Consider
NUMBER as the name of a service and print all numbers
/ providers, which supply this service.
-ttakt Print only providers, which have calculation impulses
smaller or equal to
takt. Default is 9999.
-vverbose Set
verbose level.
-x provider[
,provider...] Exclude these
provider(s).
DISPLAY AND RUN OPTIONS¶
-C Connect to a running isdnrate daemon. This avoids long startup times.
-D Start as a daemon, waiting for connections from a client. The socket
/var/run/isdnrate/socket is created, which clients can connect to (the
socket can be changed by using the -O option).
-D2 Start as a daemon and go background.
-CD3 Stop a running daemon.
-Gn Print raw data for connection.
n may be currently
97,98,99.
-H Print a header.
-L Print a semicolon separated list of
- vbn ; providername ; zone ; day ; time ; currency ; charge ; basicprice ;
price ; duration ; charge/min ; takt ; minimum price
-N Show info about following numbers. If no provider is given, the
preselected provider is used.
-Osocketfile Use given filename as the socket on start of daemon.
Default is
/var/run/isdnrate/socket.
-Ppiddir Write own PID to
piddir/isdnrate.pid on start of
daemon.
-Ssort Sort output by
sort, which may be
- v vbn or n provider name. Default is by charge.
-T Print a table of charges for daytimes weekday/weekend.
-V Print version info and exit.
-Xexplain Print additional information for charge or from
rate-file.
explain may be
- 1 (zone)
2 (charge/min, zone, day, time)
50 International areas
51 National zones
52 Services
COMMENT Print C:COMMENT: info from rate files.
If
-s is given, the number of the service is also listed with
-X1
or
-X2.
-Z Print info for LCR
e.g. isdnrate -p1 -ZX 19430
shows the rate for provider 1 and the cheapest rate to this service.
Note: Various output options may not be used together. If you gave conflicting
options you'll see a warning.
Note also: Sort by name or providernumber and
-bbest will bring
you the first
best providers in sorting order, not the cheapest.
And finally: Some options like
-X50,
-X51,
-X52,
-D,
-V don't require a telefon
NUMBER.
FILES¶
rate-CC.dat,
holiday-CC.dat,
dest.gdbm,
zone-CC-PPP.gdbm,
isdn.conf,
telrate.cgi and more.
Note: The extension of zone- and dest data files depends on configuration.
Recently
.cdb is used.
EXAMPLES¶
isdnrate -D2
Start the isdnrate daemon.
isdnrate -D2 -P /var/run -O /tmp/isdnr_socket
Start the isdnrate daemon, write
isdnrate.pid to /var/run and create the
given socket.
isdnrate -CH -b5 -f01 -l120 Attersee
Connect to running daemon, print a header and the best 5 rates from Vienna
(
01) to destination
Attersee for a connection length of 2
Minutes.
isdnrate -CX -p1_2,24 +1
Show rates and zones for destination USA for providers
1_2 and
24.
isdnrate -C -l60 -rv010 HAM
Show rates for a one minute call to Hamburg (HAM: airport code) and use only
providers whose vbn begins with 010. So provider A with vbn 01030 is
displayed, provider B with vbn 0190023 is not.
isdnrate -CX -H -dW -b5 US CA
Show a header, rates and zones for destinations USA and Canada for best 5
providers during workday.
isdnrate -CHoX US
Show header, rate and zone for destination USA for booked providers only.
isdnrate -CsX -l60 Internet
Show rates and numbers for service
Internet for a 1 minutes call.
isdnrate -CZ 19430
Show rates and the best provider for this (service-)number.
isdnrate -CD3
Stop the running isdnrate daemon.
SIGNALS¶
A isdnrate daemon restarts (and therefore rereads its configuration) on getting
a SIGHUP signal.
SEE ALSO¶
rate-files(5),
isdnlog(8),
isdn.conf(5)
BUGS¶
Definitely yes. Sometimes more then one daemon can be started, sometimes the
socket is not removed, when the daemon terminates. if this happens ('socket in
use'), do a
rm /tmp/isdnrate and try again.
AUTHORS¶
Andreas Kool <akool@isdn4linux.de> started this program. Leopold Toetsch
<lt@toetsch.at> continued the work and brought this man page to you.
Michael Reinelt <reinelt@eunet.at> did the calculation engine and
various tools for it.