[Asterisk-Users] asterisk console from xinetd?

[Nicolás Gudiño]

Hello,

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 12:54:50 +0100 (BST), Mark Turner <mark at kram.org> wrote:
> I'm trying to set up xinetd to run an asterisk console on a tcp port.
> 
> So far I've added a file in /etc/xinetd.d/ like:
> 
<snip>
> After adding actl to /etc/services and restarting xinetd it reports
> one new service.  When connecting to port 1234 on 127.0.0.1 (iptables
> preventing remote hosts from accessing this service) I see the CLI prompt
> repeating over and over with no line breaks.
> 
> Any idea how to prevent the looping please?
> 
> p.s. Why am I doing this?  We have an application that already knows
> how to talk to other things via TCP sockets and we'd like to make it
> talk to Asterisk too.  The network between the two servers is trusted
> so sending stuff clear-text isn't a problem.

Did you try asterisk manager? You can execute all of the cli commands
and much more. Just enable it in /etc/asterisk/manager.conf and read
manager.txt in the asterisk docs directory.

-- 
Nicolás Gudiño
Buenos Aires - Argentina