[Asterisk-Users] agi script forcing asterisk reload

[Steven Critchfield]

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 10:51, Muhammad Nasim wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.  It seems I may be proceeding in the wrong direction.
> I  have a context with time arguments e.g. include
> somecontext|18:00-9-00|mon-fri So the system behaves according to standard
> office hours.
> I want to be able to leave the office in office hours e.g at 13:00, dial a
> number and move straight to an office closed behaviour. I want to come back
> to the office at 16:00 and dial another number and move back to my original
> scenario.
> 
> What you say makes sense to me now. However I am new to this so a bit dense
> :).
> 
> I suppose I could have an agi script that did a DBput and stored a different
> value for a 'switch' variable based on the number dialled. The gotoif would
> then work based on the value obtained by DBget which would be different
> based on what the 'switch' variable value was set to.
> 
> Have I understood what you are saying correctly and am I making sense?

You have understood it. I would probably use a global variable and leave
it at that, but dbput/dbget will make sure if your machine unexpectedly
reboots while in a specified state that it will remain in that state.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven Critchfield" <critch at basesys.com>
> To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 3:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] agi script forcing asterisk reload
> 
> 
> > On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 08:44, Muhammad Nasim wrote:
> > > Hi. I am using #include to include a file in extensions.conf. I have
> > > an agi perl script which modifies the #included file and then forces
> > > an asterisk reload with 'system("asterisk -rx reload")';
> > >
> > > After the reload I use set_context, set_extension and set_priority to
> > > tell asterisk where I want it to carry on from which is line 2 of the
> > > following.
> > >
> > > exten => *80,1,AGI(bla.pl, ${EXTEN})
> > > exten => *80,2,Background(please_wait_while)
> > > exten => *80,3,Hangup
> > >
> > > This works some of the time. However at other times the sip channel
> > > remains active and somehow asterisk doesn't find its way to line 2
> > > after the reload (although the reload still happens). So I don't get
> > > by Background or Hangup being executed some of the time.
> > >
> > > Can anyone point me in some direction with how to debug this
> > > intermittent behaviour further?
> > > Does anyone know of any issues with an agi script forcing a reload in
> > > this way?
> >
> > Well, I wonder why you are doing the above actions. IF it is for a user
> > selectable dialplan like a day/night operation, maybe you should look
> > into setting those dialplans up in their own context and doing gotoif
> > based switching on a known variable. This is a lot better than changing
> > the in memory dialplan for this.
> >
> > --
> > Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>
> >
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