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 -a -bbest -dday -ffrom -hhour -llen -o -pprovs -r vNN -s
10 -ttakt -vverbose -xexclude -C -Ddet -Gdata -H -L -N -Osocketfile
11 -Ppiddir -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 -a Show old and newer rates. Default actual only.
45 -bbest Print only best providers. Default is all.
47 -crateconf Use rateconf as provider selection file and ignore setting
49 in isdn.conf.
50 -dday Calc rates for day. day can be one of
52 dd day of current month
54 dd.mm day month
55 dd.mm.yy[yy] day, month, year
56 W Weekday
57 N Weekday - night
58 E Weekend
59 Default is now.
61 -ffrom Callers location. Default is from isdn.conf.
63 -hhour Time hh[:mm[:ss]] of call. Default is now.
65 -iratefile Use ratefile (usually rate-CC.dat) as source for telephone
67 fees and ignore setting in isdn.conf.
68 -llen Length of call in seconds. Default is 153 seconds.
70 -o Show only booked providers. These are providers, which are listed in
72 rate.conf.
73 -p provider[,provider...] Print only info for given provider(s).
75 provider is the provider number, without the leading VBN, or
76 provider_variant if there are more variations, or B for business
77 providers.
78 -rvNN Show only providers whose VBN begins with NN. The VBN is also
80 known as provider prefix consisting of VBN and provider number.
81 -s Consider NUMBER as the name of a service and print all numbers /
83 providers, which supply this service.
84 -ttakt Print only providers, which have calculation impulses smaller or
86 equal to takt. Default is 9999.
87 -vverbose Set verbose level.
89 -x provider[,provider...] Exclude these provider(s).
91 DISPLAY AND RUN OPTIONS
93 -C Connect to a running isdnrate daemon. This avoids long start-up
94 times.
95 -D Start as a daemon, waiting for connections from a client. The socket
97 /tmp/isdnrate is created, which clients can connect to.
98 -D2 Start as a daemon and go background.
100 -CD3 Stop a running daemon.
102 -Gn Print raw data for connection. n may be currently 97,98,99.
104 -H Print a header.
106 -L Print a semicolon separated list of
108 vbn ; providername ; zone ; day ; time ; currency ; charge ;
110 basicprice ; price ; duration ; charge/min ; takt ; minimum
111 price
112 -N Show info about following numbers. If no provider is given, the pre‐
114 selected provider is used.
115 -Osocketfile Write socket to given filename on start of daemon. Default
117 is tmp/isdnrate.
118 -Ppiddir Write own PID to piddir/isdnrate.pid on start of daemon.
120 -Ssort Sort output by sort, which may be
122 v vbn or n provider name. Default is by charge.
124 -T Print a table of charges for daytimes weekday/weekend.
126 -V Print version info and exit.
128 -Xexplain Print additional information for charge or from rate-file.
130 explain may be
131 1 (zone)
133 2 (charge/min, zone, day, time)
134 50 International areas
135 51 National zones
136 52 Services
137 COMMENT Print C:COMMENT: info from rate files.
138 If -s is given, the number of the service is also listed with -X1 or
140 -X2.
141 -Z Print info for LCR
143 e.g. isdnrate -p1 -ZX 19430
144 shows the rate for provider 1 and the cheapest rate to this service.
145 Note: Various output options may not be used together. Conflicting
147 options will produce a warning.
148 Note also: Sort by name or providernumber and -bbest will bring you the
149 first best providers in sorting order, not the cheapest.
150 And finally: Some options like -X50, -X51, -X52, -D, -V don't require a
151 telephone NUMBER.
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154 rate-CC.dat, holiday-CC.dat, dest.gdbm, zone-CC-PPP.gdbm, isdn.conf,
155 telrate.cgi and more.
156 Note: The extension of zone- and dest data files depends on configura‐
157 tion. Recently .cdb is used.
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160 isdnrate -D2
161 Start the isdnrate daemon.
162 isdnrate -D2 -P /var/run -O /tmp/isdnr_socket
164 Start the isdnrate daemon, write isdnrate.pid to /var/run and create
165 the given socket.
166 isdnrate -CH -b5 -f01 -l120 Attersee
168 Connect to running daemon, print a header and the best 5 rates from
169 Vienna (01) to destination Attersee for a connection length of 2 Min‐
170 utes.
171 isdnrate -CX -p1_2,24 +1
174 Show rates and zones for destination USA for providers 1, 2 and 24.
175 isdnrate -C -l60 -rv010 HAM
177 Show rates for a one minute call to Hamburg (HAM: airport code) and use
178 only providers whose vbn begins with 010. So provider A with vbn 01030
179 is displayed, provider B with vbn 0190023 is not.
180 isdnrate -CX -H -dW -b5 US CA
182 Show a header, rates and zones for destinations USA and Canada for best
183 5 providers during workday.
184 isdnrate -CHoX US
186 Show header, rate and zone for destination USA for booked providers
187 only.
188 isdnrate -CsX -l60 Internet
190 Show rates and numbers for service Internet for a 1 minute call.
191 isdnrate -CZ 19430
193 Show rates and the best provider for this (service-)number.
194 isdnrate -CD3
196 Stop the running isdnrate daemon.
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199 A isdnrate daemon restarts (and therefore rereads its configuration) on
200 getting a SIGHUP signal.
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203 rate-files(5), isdnlog(8), isdn.conf(5)
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206 Definitely yes. Sometimes more then one daemon can be started, some‐
207 times the socket is not removed, when the daemon terminates. if this
208 happens ('socket in use'), do a rm /tmp/isdnrate and try again.
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211 Andreas Kool <akool@isdn4linux.de> started this program. Leopold
212 Toetsch <lt@toetsch.at> continued the work and brought this man page to
213 you. Michael Reinelt <reinelt@eunet.at> did the calculation engine and
214 various tools for it.
215-lt- 2004/07/13 ISDNRATE(1)