[Asterisk-Users] How to restart * thru phone "when convenient"

[Steven Critchfield]

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 07:44, Philipp von Klitzing wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> here is my attempt to initiate a "restart when convenient" from a 
> software SIP phone.
> 
> exten => 588,1,Answer
> exten => 588,2,Wait(1)
> exten => 588,3,Playback(restart-convenient)
> exten => 588,4,Wait(1)
> exten => 588,5,Authenticate(00000)
> exten => 588,6,System(/usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "restart when convenient")
> exten => 588,7,Hangup
> 
> The problem: We never reach the "convenient" state because the SIP client 
> will stay connected until priority 6 has been executed - so I locked 
> myself in basically. Any suggestion how to accomplish this? With "restart 
> now" there is no problem, but that's not what I want...

You could use "at" to issue the command at a deferred time. You could
always determine what you think is causing trouble that needs a restart
and fix it. You could cron this so it happens regularly and therefore
doesn't need a phone call to do it. 

> BTW: Where exactly is the difference between Hangup and Softhangup()?

Hangup is something done in the course of the dialplan and works on the
current channel where softhangup is a cli command that works on a named
channel. 
-- 
Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>