yeah, it'd be nice if there was a way to disable the desktop notification thing. It's unlikely users who buy FOP2 as an extension to our CRM integration will want to use it.

Also, is there any documentation on what users need to do with a stock FreePBX (in my case PIAF Purple) to exclude the FOP2 folder from first requiring the user to login to FreePBX? On my box I need to first login to FreePBX before I can send the FOP2 url string with basic auth params embedded.

We are integrating FOP2 support into yaai (yet another asterisk integration) it's sugarcrm's premier telephony integration.
https://www.github.com/blak3r/yaai/wiki

A) I'd like to be able to disable the growl style "click here to enable desktop notifications" globally. So, every user doesn't see this.

B) It'e be nice if you could globally turn off some of the buttons across the top such as the dial bar, filter bar, extension dial etc which aren't really needed in our application.

We've come up with workarounds and they are outlined here:
https://github.com/blak3r/yaai/issues/110

But, it'd be nice if we didn't have to tell users to modify core files in order to make it work.

Figured out my issue... I wasn't being patient enough after calling the service start before checking to see if port 4445 was bound yet.

root@host:/etc/rc.d/init.d $ netstat -lnp | grep 444
root@host:/etc/rc.d/init.d $ service fop2 start
Starting Flash Operator Panel 2: daemon /usr/local/fop2/fop2_server -d -i venet0    <--- added this echo for debug
                                                           [  OK  ]
root@host:/etc/rc.d/init.d $ netstat -lnp | grep 444   <--- ~500ms between each
root@host:/etc/rc.d/init.d $ netstat -lnp | grep 444
root@host:/etc/rc.d/init.d $ netstat -lnp | grep 444
root@host:/etc/rc.d/init.d $ netstat -lnp | grep 444
root@host:/etc/rc.d/init.d $ netstat -lnp | grep 444
root@host:/etc/rc.d/init.d $ netstat -lnp | grep 444
root@host:/etc/rc.d/init.d $ netstat -lnp | grep 444
root@host:/etc/rc.d/init.d $ netstat -lnp | grep 444
root@host:/etc/rc.d/init.d $ netstat -lnp | grep 444
root@host:/etc/rc.d/init.d $ netstat -lnp | grep 444
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:4445                0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      13623/fop2_server

For reference, I'm using the latest as of 12/22/2012. I believe it's 2.26
The distro is centos. It's a PIAF purple install.

Following instructions I've found on this forum, I did the screen thing and ran

service fop2 stop
cd /usr/local/fop2
screen
./fop2_server -X 511 -i venet0    <--- Notice custom interface
ctrl-a d

Everything works.

root@asdf:/etc/asterisk $ pgrep fop2_server
1578
root@asdf::/etc/asterisk $ netstat -lnp | grep 444
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:4445                0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      1578/./fop2_server

When I try to run as a daemon it doesn't.

I took your suggestion from another forum and my /etc/sysconfig/fop2 looks like:

OPTIONS="-d -i venet0"

And it doesn't start up. Where do I go from here?

Note: I disabled FOP (1) from amportal.conf etc.