[asterisk-users] How to access environment variable?

[Larry Alkoff]

Thanks for your reply Ioan.

Very interesting.  ${ENV(PATH)} works to display the path
but ${ENV(MYIP)} does not!

There must be a list in Asterisk that only allows cerain environmental 
variables to be shown.  A very unnecessary bummer.

However, at the CLI prompt:
! echo $PATH and  ! echo $MYIP
both work fine.

Larry


Ioan Indreias wrote:
> Hello Larry,
> 
> Probably your variable (MYIP) is not accessible to asterisk process 
> environment.
> Test it with ${ENV(PATH)} and you will have a result there....
> 
> exten => s,n,Set(test=${ENV(PATH)})
> -- Executing Set("IAX2/test_iax", 
> "test=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin") in new stack
> 


Larry Alkoff wrote:
 > How can I access an environmental variable in Asterisk 1.2.5?
 >
 > It should be possible according to:
 > http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+variables
 > which says:
 >
 > Environment Variables
 > You may access unix environment variables using the syntax:
 >    ${ENV(foo)}
 > ${ENV(ASTERISK_PROMPT)}: the current Asterisk CLI prompt.
 > ${ENV(RECORDED_FILE)}: the filename of the last file saved by the 
Record command
 >
 >
 > I have an environmental variable MYIP which contains my current IP 
address but when I execute exten _4XX the following line only says
 > 'myip is  ' and the rest is blank instead of showing
 > 'myip is   www.xxx.yyy.zzz'
 >
 > exten => _4XX,n,VERBOSE("myip is  ${ENV(MYIP)}")
 >
 > Why doesn't it work?
 >
 > Larry

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Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX
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