[asterisk-users] How to repeat pri show span and zap show channel commands

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 07:56:18AM +0100, Olivier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For debugging purpose, it might be useful to repeat every 30s or so, pri
> show span and zap show channel commands have the results merged with
> /var/log/asterisk/full log file?

Log to syslog (see the sample logger.conf), and run a cron script that 
does that every minute.

Note: this is expected to generate a huge log file.

> 
> Any better idea than running an dedicated shell script with a "asterisk -rx
> pri show span 1" line ?

Here is my pipeast script:

(while read line; do
  echo -n "$line"   # trim the ending newline
  sleep 0.001       # generate different write(2)-s
done) | socat - /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl

You can pipe whatever you want to that. e.g:

while true; do
  echo pri show span 1
  sleep 30
done | pipeast

Note: socat is available as a debian package:
http://packages.debian.org/socat .

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