[asterisk-users] Strange putconfig bahviour

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Monday 18 August 2008 12:02:15 Vadim Lebedev wrote:
> > > Value-000001: >888,1,Noop(888)
> >
> > It may or may not be related, but those greater-than signs (>) in there
> > look wrong, and may be causing some problems.
>
> Without them you can't get  "exten=>888,1,Dial(888)"
> if your remove '>'  you get "exten=888,1,Dial(888)"  in extensions.conf
> which is BAD.

Why is it bad?  In all Asterisk config files, the '>' after the '=' is
superfluous for defining extensions, variables, etc.  Try it.  Having
exten=123,1,... is perfectly valid and does not affect how Asterisk works
in any appreciable way.

-- 
Tilghman