[Asterisk-Users] System cmd usage

[Eric Stanley]

I saw the same thing.  I think I determined that it always failed at the same 
point in the macro, no matter what command was being executed.  I just put 
the whole cleanup process in a shell script and I execute the shell script 
from the macro.

Eric

On Friday 20 February 2004 11:48, Bill Michaelson wrote:
> Using John Todd's example for recording, from his cleanup/conversion
> macro...
>
> ; Turn the two in/out .wav files into a single .wav file with both channels
> exten => s,3,System(/usr/local/bin/wmix
> ${MONITORDIR}/${CALLFILENAME}-in.wav ${\
> MONITORDIR}/${CALLFILENAME}-out.wav > ${MONITORDIR}/${CALLFILENAME})
> ;
> ; Remove the old .wav files - we don't need them anymore.
> exten => s,4,System(/bin/rm ${MONITORDIR}/${CALLFILENAME}-in.wav
> ${MONITORDIR}/\
> ${CALLFILENAME}-out.wav)
> ;
> ; This part of the routine compresses the .wav files into a .gsm file for
> ;  better storage (about 1/5 the size of a .wav file).  Use "untoast" to
> restor\
> e
> ;  to normal wav file format. (toast and untoast are fairly standard on
> Linux s\
> ystems)
> ;
> exten => s,5,System(/usr/bin/toast -F ${MONITORDIR}/${CALLFILENAME})
>
> The wmix runs successfully (it produces the mixed file), and running "by
> hand" from the shell indicates that it returns 0 to the shell.  But the
> * console log seems to think it failed...
>
>     -- Executing System("SIP/248379-fe6e", "/usr/local/bin/wmix
> /var/spool/asterisk/monitor/20040220-121235-111-916095326873-in.wav
> /var/spool/asterisk/monitor/20040220-121235-111-916095326873-out.wav >
> /var/spool/asterisk/monitor/20040220-121235-111-916095326873") in new stack
> Feb 20 12:12:56 WARNING[1209214528]: app_system.c:57 system_exec: Unable
> to execute '/usr/local/bin/wmix
> /var/spool/asterisk/monitor/20040220-121235-111-916095326873-in.wav
> /var/spool/asterisk/monitor/20040220-121235-111-916095326873-out.wav >
> /var/spool/asterisk/monitor/20040220-121235-111-916095326873'
>   == Spawn extension (macro-record-cleanup, s, 3) exited non-zero on
> 'SIP/248379-fe6e' in macro 'record-cleanup'
>   == Spawn extension (intern-post, s, 1) exited non-zero on
> 'SIP/248379-fe6e'
>
> Any ideas why?