1ISDNRATE(1) General Commands Manual ISDNRATE(1)
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6 isdnrate - Print telephone rates and various info from rate-files(5).
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9 isdnrate -bbest -dday -ffrom -hhour -llen -o -pprovs -r vNN -s -ttakt
10 -vverbose -xexclude -C -Ddet -Gdata -H -L -N -Osocketfile -Ppiddir
11 -Ssort -T -U -V -Xexplain -Z NUMBER ...
12 All options are optional.
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16 The isdnrate program prints various information from rate-files(5). Its
17 main purpose is the calculation of telephone rates from your location
18 to an arbitrary destination at a certain time and of a certain length
19 for all the providers in a rate-file.
20 NUMBER
22 A telephone number may be
23 1234 a local area number
25 01234 a different area in your country
27 +12345 a foreign country
29 China text for a foreign country
31 Paris a town
33 US a code as defined in country.dat.
35 Internet a Service name (if option -s is also given).
37 Note that currently only city names in AT, DE and NL are supported plus
39 some international capitals.
40 Note also, spaces in country- or service names may be given as under‐
41 scores.
42 OPTIONS
44 -bbest Print only best providers. Default is all.
45 -crateconf Use rateconf as provider selection file and ignore setting
47 in isdn.conf.
48 -dday Calc rates for day. day can be one of
50 dd day of current month
52 dd.mm day month
53 dd.mm.yy[yy] day, month, year
54 W Weekday
55 N Weekday - night
56 E Weekend
57 Default is now.
59 -ffrom Callers location. Default is from isdn.conf.
61 -hhour Time hh[:mm[:ss]] of call. Default is now.
63 -iratefile Use ratefile (usually rate-CC.dat) as source for telephone
65 fees and ignore setting in isdn.conf.
66 -llen Length of call in seconds. Default is 153 seconds.
68 -o Show only booked providers. These are providers, which are listed in
70 rate.conf.
71 -p provider[,provider...] Print only info for given provider(s).
73 provider is the provider number, without the leading VBN, or
74 provider_variant if there are more variations, or B for business
75 providers.
76 -rvNN Show only providers whose VBN begins with NN. The VBN is also
78 known as provider prefix consisting of VBN and provider number.
79 -s Consider NUMBER as the name of a service and print all numbers /
81 providers, which supply this service.
82 -ttakt Print only providers, which have calculation impulses smaller or
84 equal to takt. Default is 9999.
85 -vverbose Set verbose level.
87 -x provider[,provider...] Exclude these provider(s).
89 DISPLAY AND RUN OPTIONS
91 -C Connect to a running isdnrate daemon. This avoids long start-up
92 times.
93 -D Start as a daemon, waiting for connections from a client. The socket
95 /var/run/isdnrate/socket is created, which clients can connect to (the
96 socket can be changed by using the -O option).
97 -D2 Start as a daemon and go background.
99 -CD3 Stop a running daemon.
101 -Gn Print raw data for connection. n may be currently 97,98,99.
103 -H Print a header.
105 -L Print a semicolon separated list of
107 vbn ; providername ; zone ; day ; time ; currency ; charge ;
109 basicprice ; price ; duration ; charge/min ; takt ; minimum
110 price
111 -N Show info about following numbers. If no provider is given, the pre‐
113 selected provider is used.
114 -Osocketfile Use given filename as the socket on start of daemon.
116 Default is /var/run/isdnrate/socket.
117 -Ppiddir Write own PID to piddir/isdnrate.pid on start of daemon.
119 -Ssort Sort output by sort, which may be
121 v vbn or n provider name. Default is by charge.
123 -T Print a table of charges for daytimes weekday/weekend.
125 -V Print version info and exit.
127 -Xexplain Print additional information for charge or from rate-file.
129 explain may be
130 1 (zone)
132 2 (charge/min, zone, day, time)
133 50 International areas
134 51 National zones
135 52 Services
136 COMMENT Print C:COMMENT: info from rate files.
137 If -s is given, the number of the service is also listed with -X1 or
139 -X2.
140 -Z Print info for LCR
142 e.g. isdnrate -p1 -ZX 19430
143 shows the rate for provider 1 and the cheapest rate to this service.
144 Note: Various output options may not be used together. Conflicting
146 options will produce a warning.
147 Note also: Sort by name or providernumber and -bbest will bring you the
148 first best providers in sorting order, not the cheapest.
149 And finally: Some options like -X50, -X51, -X52, -D, -V don't require a
150 telephone NUMBER.
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153 rate-CC.dat, holiday-CC.dat, dest.gdbm, zone-CC-PPP.gdbm, isdn.conf,
154 telrate.cgi and more.
155 Note: The extension of zone- and dest data files depends on configura‐
156 tion. Recently .cdb is used.
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159 isdnrate -D2
160 Start the isdnrate daemon.
161 isdnrate -D2 -P /var/run -O /tmp/isdnr_socket
163 Start the isdnrate daemon, write isdnrate.pid to /var/run and create
164 the given socket.
165 isdnrate -CH -b5 -f01 -l120 Attersee
167 Connect to running daemon, print a header and the best 5 rates from
168 Vienna (01) to destination Attersee for a connection length of 2 Min‐
169 utes.
170 isdnrate -CX -p1_2,24 +1
173 Show rates and zones for destination USA for providers 1, 2 and 24.
174 isdnrate -C -l60 -rv010 HAM
176 Show rates for a one minute call to Hamburg (HAM: airport code) and use
177 only providers whose vbn begins with 010. So provider A with vbn 01030
178 is displayed, provider B with vbn 0190023 is not.
179 isdnrate -CX -H -dW -b5 US CA
181 Show a header, rates and zones for destinations USA and Canada for best
182 5 providers during workday.
183 isdnrate -CHoX US
185 Show header, rate and zone for destination USA for booked providers
186 only.
187 isdnrate -CsX -l60 Internet
189 Show rates and numbers for service Internet for a 1 minute call.
190 isdnrate -CZ 19430
192 Show rates and the best provider for this (service-)number.
193 isdnrate -CD3
195 Stop the running isdnrate daemon.
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198 A isdnrate daemon restarts (and therefore rereads its configuration) on
199 getting a SIGHUP signal.
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202 rate-files(5), isdnlog(8), isdn.conf(5)
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205 Definitely yes. Sometimes more then one daemon can be started, some‐
206 times the socket is not removed, when the daemon terminates. if this
207 happens ('socket in use'), do a rm /tmp/isdnrate and try again.
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210 Andreas Kool <akool@isdn4linux.de> started this program. Leopold
211 Toetsch <lt@toetsch.at> continued the work and brought this man page to
212 you. Michael Reinelt <reinelt@eunet.at> did the calculation engine and
213 various tools for it.
214-lt- 2004/07/13 ISDNRATE(1)