[Asterisk-Users] Using an extension to send a linux command

[Alexander Lopez]

What user is yoru asterisk service running as?

It is probably a permissions or path issue.

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> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Kaleb L. Kunzler
> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 1:43 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Using an extension to send a linux command
> 
>  I am a newbie to asterisk and am trying to send a linux 
> command using extensions in asterisk, for example when I dial 
> 1111 I want to run the linux
> command "/usr/local/bin/br -c -n 1" (obviously without the 
> quotes).   If I
> SSH into my asterisk box and enter that command, it works, 
> however I can't seem to get it to work from asterisk.  I am 
> running Asterisk at home2.2 (I know, I am a sucker for a GUI).  
> Below is what I have in my dialplan.
> Watching the CLI output it seems to be running the priorities 
> correctly, and even "assumedly" sending the command, however 
> the script (br) never is actually executed.  Any ideas? (no I 
> don't want to convert the script into an agi or php yet, I 
> like it as it is)
> 
> exten => 1111,1,Goto(custom-command,s,1)
>  
> [custom-command]
> exten => s,1,System(/usr/local/bin/br -c C -n 1) exten => s,n,Hangup()
> 
> 
> Kaleb L. Kunzler
> 
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