[Asterisk-Users] Safely editing voicemail.conf

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I think you should discuss this with the bug marshals looks like a bug to me.

On 2/16/06, John Goerzen <jgoerzen at complete.org> wrote:
> We have a problem with Asterisk not locking voicemail.conf for update.
>
> It appears to not protect the file even against itself.  It certainly
> doesn't use flock() to protect it against others.
>
> This is a problem for several reasons.  First, of course, people can be
> hand-editing the file to add or remove users.  Secondly, automated
> programs may be appending data to it for the same purpose.
>
> We've noticed corruption in our file that appears to occur when someone
> is changing their passwords at the same time that the file is being
> appended to.  From looking at app_voicemail.c, Asterisk does nothing
> whatsoever to lock the file before modifying it.  That sounds bad to me.
>
> Has anyone else seen this problem?  What do you do to work around it?
>
> We're running Asterisk 1.2.1.
>
> -- John
>
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