[Asterisk-Users] agi script forcing asterisk reload

[Muhammad Nasim]

Thanks for your reply.  It seems I may be proceeding in the wrong direction.
I  have a context with time arguments e.g. include
somecontext|18:00-9-00|mon-fri So the system behaves according to standard
office hours.
I want to be able to leave the office in office hours e.g at 13:00, dial a
number and move straight to an office closed behaviour. I want to come back
to the office at 16:00 and dial another number and move back to my original
scenario.

What you say makes sense to me now. However I am new to this so a bit dense
:).

I suppose I could have an agi script that did a DBput and stored a different
value for a 'switch' variable based on the number dialled. The gotoif would
then work based on the value obtained by DBget which would be different
based on what the 'switch' variable value was set to.

Have I understood what you are saying correctly and am I making sense?

Cheers

M



----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Critchfield" <critch at basesys.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] agi script forcing asterisk reload


> On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 08:44, Muhammad Nasim wrote:
> > Hi. I am using #include to include a file in extensions.conf. I have
> > an agi perl script which modifies the #included file and then forces
> > an asterisk reload with 'system("asterisk -rx reload")';
> >
> > After the reload I use set_context, set_extension and set_priority to
> > tell asterisk where I want it to carry on from which is line 2 of the
> > following.
> >
> > exten => *80,1,AGI(bla.pl, ${EXTEN})
> > exten => *80,2,Background(please_wait_while)
> > exten => *80,3,Hangup
> >
> > This works some of the time. However at other times the sip channel
> > remains active and somehow asterisk doesn't find its way to line 2
> > after the reload (although the reload still happens). So I don't get
> > by Background or Hangup being executed some of the time.
> >
> > Can anyone point me in some direction with how to debug this
> > intermittent behaviour further?
> > Does anyone know of any issues with an agi script forcing a reload in
> > this way?
>
> Well, I wonder why you are doing the above actions. IF it is for a user
> selectable dialplan like a day/night operation, maybe you should look
> into setting those dialplans up in their own context and doing gotoif
> based switching on a known variable. This is a lot better than changing
> the in memory dialplan for this.
>
> --
> Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>
>
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