[Asterisk-Users] Set system time over the phone

[Mike Sander]

Looks good - thanks for the help!

Mike
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roman Volf" <volfman at keystreams.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
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Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Set system time over the phone


> Another way is to do:
>
> exten 456,1,Background(Please-set-time-mmddhhmm)
> exten _.,1,System (echo ${EXTEN} > /tmp/datetime )
>
>
> Then have a cron job that runs every minute to check if file exists. For 
> example:
>
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> if [ -f /tmp/datetime ] then
>  date `cat /tmp/datetime`
>  rm -f /tmp/datetime
> fi
>
>
>
> This should work fine.
>
>
>
> Roman Volf
> Keystreams Internet Solutions
> volfman at keystreams.com
>
>
>
> Matt Riddell wrote:
>
>> Peter Bowyer wrote:
>>
>>>> exten 456,1,Background(Please-set-time-mmddhhmm)
>>>> exten _.,1,System (date ${EXTEN})
>>>>
>>>> If I dial 456 I get the message, so I type 04021305 (2nd April, 13:05).
>>>>
>>>> On the console Asterisk reports the command Dial 04021305 exits 
>>>> non-zero.
>>>
>>>
>>> You need 'Read' instead of 'Background'.
>>
>>
>> No, because his next line is _.,1 so it will actually use the extension.
>>
>> His problem is just one of permissions.  Maybe he should use a suid prog 
>> to set the date.
>>
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