Cristian Livadaru's Blog

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FusionPBX and anonymous callerID

Some carriers might block calls if the call has no caller id in the sip FROM. I stumbled upon such an issue while forwarding inbound calls from FusionPBX to a cell phone number. The calls were rejected if they reached fusionpbx with anonymous as the caller id.

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Doing FusionPBX Provisioning the right way

Reusing passwords is never a good idea and by default the fusionpbx setup would use the same user and password for all domains when provisioning.

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Thursday, November 15, 2018

Install Mikrotik CHR on a XEN dom0

If you want to play around with mikrotik or a need a mikrotik CHR, you can install it on XEN and run it without any issues.

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Friday, October 12, 2018

Testing websites with cypress and GitLab CI - Part2

In the second part, I’ll show you how to set up gitlab CI to deploy your locomotive CMS App and run tests on it.

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Testing websites with cypress and GitLab CI - Part1

Testing a web app is common practice but when it comes to simpler websites it is often overlooked which caused pain, pain which can be avoided by creating specs. Let me guide you through spec creation for simple web pages which we will then automate and have them run in gitlab CI.

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Freeswitch/Fusionpbx: Play audio after call was picked up

Want to play and audio to the called number after the call was picked up?

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Friday, June 8, 2018

Upgrading PostgreSQL 9.1 to 9.4

Happy times with locales during a simple upgrade

Error: The locale requested by the environment is invalid. Error: Could not create target cluster

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Friday, April 27, 2018

Switching mailservers with nginx as mail proxy

Switching mailserver with lots of active users isn’t an easy task. First you need to copy the mails to the new server and then get all the users to change mailserver settings at the same time to switch to the new server.

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Friday, March 2, 2018

SSH from Mac OS High Sierra to old SSH Servers

Change SSH client settings to enable SSH logins to older SSH servers or Mikrotik routers

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Monday, January 8, 2018

Extending an LVM backed by an LSI RAID controller

Adding new disks to a LSI controller, creating a new VD and extending an existing LVM volume group

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Sunday, January 7, 2018