[asterisk-users] Generate Random Numbers in dialplan

[Jon Weisman]

I stumbled across that but have no idea how to install it. I copied that 
file into the /usr/src/asterisk-1.2/apps folder and then did a make clean; 
make install, but that application is still not registered. Any ideas?

-Jon



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Edwards" <asterisk.org at sedwards.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Generate Random Numbers in dialplan


> Oops. I think you need something like this:
>
>  Backticks(<VARNAME>|<command>)
>
> which can be found here:
>
>  http://www.pbxfreeware.org/app_backticks.c
>
> On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Jon Weisman wrote:
>
>> Never mind...it does work!
>>
>> But how do I add its output to a variable?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jon
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Weisman" <jweisman at ibell.net>
>> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
>> <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 8:29 PM
>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Generate Random Numbers in dialplan
>>
>>
>>> doesnt work :(
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Edwards" 
>>> <asterisk.org at sedwards.com>
>>> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
>>> <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>>> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 4:10 PM
>>> Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] Generate Random Numbers in dialplan
>>>
>>>
>>>> Well, you learn something new every day :)
>>>>
>>>> FYI, $RANDOM returns a value between 0 and 32767.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Alexander Lopez wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> System(echo $RANDOM)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ________________________________
>>>>>
>>>>> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
>>>>> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jon
>>>>> Weisman
>>>>> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 12:53 PM
>>>>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>>>>> Subject: [asterisk-users] Generate Random Numbers in dialplan
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone know how to generate random numbers in the dial plan? I've 
>>>>> tried
>>>>> using the RAND function but it doesnt work. Basically I need to 
>>>>> generate
>>>>> a random 5 digit number everytime a particular extension is dialed and
>>>>> then save that into a variable. Any ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Jon
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance,
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> Thanks in advance,
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