[asterisk-users] Dial

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 09:02:59PM -0700, Steve Edwards wrote:

> Access through the CLI (via -r -x) is problematic because you are subject 
> to the whims of another process changing verbosity levels and you may have 
> to sift through a lot of cruft as well as the overhead of invoking a 
> process for each command.

I believe that this has changed in recent versions (recent 1.4 and
1.6.x).

> 
> Access through ${astrundir}/asterisk.ctl would be interesting, especially 
> if more than 1 process attempts access.

Each of them gets its own socket. Just like multiple 'asterisk -r'
connections. Use either socat or OpenBSD netcat (both support writing to
a unix-domain socket). This should work reasonably well if you just want
to write some commands but are not interested in their output.

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