Hi Steve,<br><br>I am using Asterisk version 1.6.2.5-0. Surprisingly, I don&#39;t see &quot;dialplan reload&quot;. When I do &quot;core show help dialplan&quot; I get list of commands as:<br><i><br>moment-portable*CLI&gt; core show help dialplan<br>
               dialplan debug Show fast extension pattern matching data structures<br>               dialplan set chanvar Set a channel variable<br>               dialplan set extenpatternmatch Use the Old extension pattern matching algorithm.<br>
               dialplan set extenpatternmatch Use the New extension pattern matching algorithm.<br>               dialplan set global Set global dialplan variable<br>               dialplan show chanvar Show channel variables<br>
               dialplan show globals Show global dialplan variables<br>               dialplan show Show dialplan<br></i><br>Also executing &quot;echo $(cat /proc/&lt;pid-of-asterisk&gt;cmdline)&quot; returned this path<br>
<b>/usr/sbin/asterisk-p-Uasterisk</b><br><br>I have verified the symlink between two extensions.conf files. It is okay now.<br>My dialplan show returns some 28 contexts (<b>all pbx_ael and no pbx_config</b>) and looks like this<br>
(seems context are read from extensions.ael file only)<br><br><i>[ Context &#39;default&#39; created by &#39;pbx_lua&#39; ]<br>  Alt. Switch =&gt;    &#39;Lua/&#39;                                        [pbx_lua]<br>moment-portable*CLI&gt; <br>
[ Context &#39;demo&#39; created by &#39;pbx_lua&#39; ]<br>  Alt. Switch =&gt;    &#39;Lua/&#39;                                        [pbx_lua]<br>moment-portable*CLI&gt; <br>[ Context &#39;local&#39; created by &#39;pbx_lua&#39; ]<br>
  Alt. Switch =&gt;    &#39;Lua/&#39;                                        [pbx_lua]<br><br>moment-portable*CLI&gt; <br>[ Context &#39;ael-default&#39; created by &#39;pbx_ael&#39; ]<br>  Include =&gt;        &#39;ael-demo&#39;                                    [pbx_ael]<br>
<br>[ Context &#39;ael-demo&#39; created by &#39;pbx_ael&#39; ]<br>  &#39;#&#39; =&gt;            1. Playback(demo-thanks)                      [pbx_ael]<br>                    2. Hangup()                                   [pbx_ael]<br>
  &#39;1000&#39; =&gt;         1. Goto(ael-default,s,1)                      [pbx_ael]<br>  &#39;2&#39; =&gt;            1. Background(demo-moreinfo)                  [pbx_ael]<br>                    2. Goto(s,instructions)                       [pbx_ael]<br>
  &#39;3&#39; =&gt;            1. Set(LANGUAGE()=fr)                         [pbx_ael]<br>                    2. Goto(s,restart)                            [pbx_ael]<br>  &#39;500&#39; =&gt;          1. Playback(demo-abouttotry)                  [pbx_ael]<br>
                    2. Dial(IAX2/<a href="http://guest@misery.digium.com/s@default">guest@misery.digium.com/s@default</a>) [pbx_ael]<br>                    3. Playback(demo-nogo)                        [pbx_ael]<br>                    4. Goto(s,instructions)                       [pbx_ael]<br>
  &#39;600&#39; =&gt;          1. Playback(demo-echotest)                    [pbx_ael]<br>                    2. Echo()                                     [pbx_ael]<br>                    3. Playback(demo-echodone)                    [pbx_ael]<br>
                    4. Goto(s,instructions)                       [pbx_ael]<br>  &#39;8500&#39; =&gt;         1. VoicemailMain()                            [pbx_ael]<br>                    2. Goto(s,instructions)                       [pbx_ael]<br>
  &#39;i&#39; =&gt;            1. Playback(invalid)                          [pbx_ael]<br>  &#39;s&#39; =&gt;            1. Wait(1)                                    [pbx_ael]<br>                    2. Answer()                                   [pbx_ael]<br>
                    3. Set(TIMEOUT(digit)=5)                      [pbx_ael]<br>                    4. Set(TIMEOUT(response)=10)                  [pbx_ael]<br>     [restart]      5. Background(demo-congrats)                  [pbx_ael]<br>
     [instructions] 6. MSet(x=$[0])                               [pbx_ael]<br>                    7. GotoIf($[ ${x} &lt; 3]?8:12)                  [pbx_ael]<br>                    8. Background(demo-instruct)                  [pbx_ael]<br>
                    9. WaitExten()                                [pbx_ael]<br>                    10. MSet(x=$[${x} + 1])                       [pbx_ael]<br>                    11. Goto(7)                                   [pbx_ael]<br>
                    12. NoOp(Finish for-ael-demo-3)               [pbx_ael]<br>  &#39;t&#39; =&gt;            1. Goto(#,1)                                  [pbx_ael]<br>  &#39;_1234&#39; =&gt;        1. Gosub(ael-std-exten-ael,s,1(${EXTEN}, &quot;IAX2&quot;)) [pbx_ael]<br>
<br>[ Context &#39;ael-local&#39; created by &#39;pbx_ael&#39; ]<br>  Include =&gt;        &#39;ael-default&#39;                                 [pbx_ael]<br>  Include =&gt;        &#39;ael-trunklocal&#39;                              [pbx_ael]<br>
  Include =&gt;        &#39;ael-iaxtel700&#39;                               [pbx_ael]<br>  Include =&gt;        &#39;ael-trunktollfree&#39;                           [pbx_ael]<br>  Include =&gt;        &#39;ael-iaxprovider&#39;                             [pbx_ael]<br>
  Ignore pattern =&gt; &#39;9&#39;                                           [pbx_ael]<br><br>[ Context &#39;ael-longdistance&#39; created by &#39;pbx_ael&#39; ]<br>  Include =&gt;        &#39;ael-local&#39;                                   [pbx_ael]<br>
  Include =&gt;        &#39;ael-trunkld&#39;                                 [pbx_ael]<br>  Ignore pattern =&gt; &#39;9&#39;                                           [pbx_ael]<br><br>[ Context &#39;ael-international&#39; created by &#39;pbx_ael&#39; ]<br>
  Include =&gt;        &#39;ael-longdistance&#39;                            [pbx_ael]<br>  Include =&gt;        &#39;ael-trunkint&#39;                                [pbx_ael]<br>  Ignore pattern =&gt; &#39;9&#39;                                           [pbx_ael]<br>
moment-portable*CLI&gt; <br></i>  <br><br>Thanks,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Abhinav<br><br><br>On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Steve Edwards <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="http://asterisk.org">asterisk.org</a>@<a href="http://sedwards.com">sedwards.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Please do not add me or yourself to the address list. We should keep the discussion on the list (and just the list) so it is available to everyone.<br>

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Also, top-posting is &#39;frowned upon.&#39;<div class="im"><br>
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, abhinav anand wrote:<br>
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Here are the answers to the questions.<br>
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1) Do you need to do a &#39;dialplan reload?&#39;<br>
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I don&#39;t need to do a dialplan reload. Infact there is no such command as &quot;dialplan reload&quot;. I simply do a &quot;reload&quot; each time I make a config change.<br>
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What version of Asterisk are you using?<br>
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1.2 = &#39;extensions reload&#39;<br>
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1.6 = &#39;dialplan reload&#39;<br>
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(I don&#39;t have a 1.4 or 1.8 on hand.)<br>
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If you don&#39;t have one of these, something is seriously wrong.<div class="im"><br>
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2) Are you sure you are editing the extensions.conf that your Asterisk is configured to read?<br>
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There are two extensions.conf files present in /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf /home/moment/openbts-uhd/public-trunk/AsteriskConfig/extensions.conf<br>
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I am making the changes in /etc/asterisk file. However, when I have tried putting same changes in other file too but again no success.<br>
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3) Do you start Asterisk with the -C command line option?<br>
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I start Asteisk using &quot;sudo asterisk -vvvvvvvgcr&quot; or &quot;sudo asterisk -r&quot;. &quot;-c&quot; says Asterisk already running on /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl.  Use &#39;asterisk -r&#39; to connect.<br>
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The &#39;r&#39; command line option asks to connect to an existing instance, so this is not the command you use to start Asterisk.<br>
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The &#39;upper-case C&#39; command line option allows you to specify location other than /etc/asterisk/ for asterisk.conf.<br>
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Typing &#39;echo $(cat /proc/&lt;pid-of-asterisk&gt;/cmdline)&#39; will show the command line and options Asterisk was started with.<div class="im"><br>
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4) What is the value of &#39;astetcdir&#39; in asterisk.conf?<br>
The value is as astetcdir =&gt; /etc/asterisk and other values are:<br>
[directories](!) ; remove the (!) to enable this<br>
astetcdir =&gt; /etc/asterisk<br>
astmoddir =&gt; /usr/lib/asterisk/modules<br>
astvarlibdir =&gt; /var/lib/asterisk<br>
astdbdir =&gt; /var/lib/asterisk<br>
astkeydir =&gt; /var/lib/asterisk<br>
astdatadir =&gt; /usr/share/asterisk<br>
astagidir =&gt; /usr/share/asterisk/agi-bin<br>
astspooldir =&gt; /var/spool/asterisk<br>
astrundir =&gt; /var/run/asterisk<br>
astlogdir =&gt; /var/log/asterisk<br>
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Some extra information:<br>
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- My asterisk version is Asterisk 1.6.2.5-0ubuntu1.1 built by buildd @ palmer on a i686 running Linux on 2010-07-16 13:24:33 UTC<br>
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So &#39;dialplan reload&#39; would be the proper command to just reload the dialplan.<div class="im"><br>
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- I am not able to verify the symlink between the two extensions.conf files<br>
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If you edit one and your edits don&#39;t magically appear in the other, they are not linked.<br>
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The &#39;ls&#39; command can also be use to confirm &#39;linkness.&#39;<br>
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When you do a &#39;dialplan show&#39; do you see lines like:<br>
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    1. mumble-mumble [pbx_config]<br>
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or<br>
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    1. mumble-mumble [pbx_ael]<br>
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or both?<br>
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(pbx_config means extensions.conf, pbx_ael means extensions.ael)<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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