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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 loca-
tion 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 under-
scores.
OPTIONS
-bbest Print only best providers. Default is all.
-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.
-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.
-rvNN 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 /tmp/isdnrate is created, which clients can connect to.
-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 Write socket to given filename on start of daemon.
Default is tmp/isdnrate.
-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 configura-
tion. 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
thew 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 Min-
utes.
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
Definitly yes. Sometimes more then one daemon can be started, some-
times 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 started this program. Leopold
Toetsch continued the work and brought this man page
to you. Michael Reinelt did the calculation engine
and various tools for it.
-lt- 2003/09/04 ISDNRATE(1)
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