[asterisk-dev] Two issues with Asterisk 1.4

[Steve Totaro]

On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Fernando Urzedo
<Fernando.Urzedo at locaweb.com.br> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> For the past two years I was using Asterisk 1.2.19. This week I have
> upgraded it to 1.4.21.2 and after that I was not able to solve two
> issues:
>
> - I always run Asterisk as a Linux user other than "root", with less
> privileges (for security reasons). When I upgraded Asterisk to version
> 1.4, it was not sending the voicemail alerts anymore. We figured out
> that, if Asterisk is executed as a root process, the emails are sent...
> On the other hand, if we execute Asterisk as another user (with less
> priorities), the emails are not sent anymore. My question is whether
> only "root" can be used to start Asterisk as of version 1.4 or we are
> missing some authorization that needs to be granted to this other user
> in order to be able to send the emails;
>
> - In Asterisk 1.2.19, I was able to perform attended transfers (NOT
> using the Asterisk builtin atxfer) using both EyeBeam 1.1 3014w stamp
> 26703 and Polycom hardphones. But, After the upgrade, only Polycom
> phones can do it. The scenario (with eyebeam) is: I call someone using
> line 1, then I call another extension using line 2, press XFER button
> and line 1 button. When I do that, Asterisk replies with a strange
> message "Failed SIP Transfer to non-existing extension 001130799781 in
> context 10.outgoing_interno_nomes", in which we can see the reason for
> the error: context 10.outgoing_interno_nomes is not supposed to handle
> this call! When I try to transfer using Polycom phone, it goes to the
> correct context and the transfer is finished correctly (it looks for the
> correct context). I can provide the SIP debug, if you need...
>
> Thanks in advance!
>

No answers here, but I am very curious.

Was the system working the way you wanted before the upgrade?  Were
there features that you needed in 1.4.X?

Thanks,
Steve Totaro