[Asterisk-Users] Auto callout - reminder - is it possible?

[Stephen Misel]

steve at daviesfam.org wrote:

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>>I'm creating the 1.call file in another directory 
>>(/var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/tmp1), then moving it to the 
>>/var/spool/asterisk/outgoing  directory.  I have another putty session 
>>running on asterisk and logged into the asterisk console, but see no 
>>activity after the file is copied in the /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing 
>>directory.
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>You can't *copy* the file into the outgoing directory.  You must *mv* it.
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>Otherwise Asterisk is quite likely to try to process your call file whilst 
>it is only half created in the directory.
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>Steve
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Remember that Linux and most other Unix variants will treat a move as a 
copy if the file's source and destination are on different filesystems.

For example:

/var is /dev/sda1
/tmp is /dev/sda2

If you mv a file from /tmp to /var will result in a cp, not a move.  I 
use something like /var/spool/asterisk/temp, that way there's never any 
concern...

-Steve