OT: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] is this a bug?

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Tuesday 25 January 2005 16:06, Matt Gibson wrote:
> Steve Kann wrote:
> > asterisk as a foreground application except for testing, where not
> > only will ^c cause it to go down, but so will the loss of the
> > terminal (i.e. broken SSH connection, hungup serial line, or
> > whatever your terminal is set up for).
>
> On a sorta related note - would it be possible to add 'shell' to the
> CLI, so it would be possible to spawn a new shell on exit?
>
> This way if someone was in asterisk, and wanted to access a shell
> (and not another vtty) they could type 'shell' or something similar,
> and be presented with a shell, then type 'exit' in the shell to be
> returned to the asterisk CLI.
>
> Sort of like what Lftp does, by lettng you shell out to the system
> while within the ftp program.
>
> I'm not a coder and it's just an idea, but I thought I should run it
> by.

iax*CLI> !
[root at iax root]# pwd
/root
[root at iax root]# exit
exit
iax*CLI>

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Tilghman