[Asterisk-Users] asterisk -rx under cron?

[Steven Critchfield]

On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 08:47, James Golovich wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Christopher Arnold wrote:
> 
> > And it solwed my immediate need too.
> > 
> > But is asterisk -rx "show channels" really not meant to work from cron or
> > an noninteractive script? If so i guess some documentaion about the
> > limitations would help other folks out there.
> 
> It works just fine for me, the only time it doesn't work is when I don't
> put some quotes around the command.
> 
> asterisk at homebox:~/cvs/asterisk# asterisk -rx 'show channels'
>         Channel  (Context    Extension    Pri )   State Appl.         Data           
> 0 active channel(s)
> 
> asterisk at homebox:~/cvs/asterisk# asterisk -rx "show channels"
>         Channel  (Context    Extension    Pri )   State Appl.         Data           
> 0 active channel(s)
> 
> asterisk at homebox:~/cvs/asterisk# asterisk -rx show channels
> No such command 'show' (type 'help' for help)

If you follow what was said above, it works interactively, but not
non-interactive. Place that in crontab and it doesn't work as expected.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>