[Asterisk-Users] CLI and Dial

[Christoph Eicke]

On Wednesday 10 August 2005 16:43, Esben Stien wrote:
> Moises Silva <moises.silva at gmail.com> writes:
> > make sure you have the next line in /etc/asterisk/modules.conf
> > load => app_dial.so
>
> Not only that, but be sure to have a sound system loaded in the
> modules.conf files.

there were actually multiple problems, firstly chan_alsa.so wasn't loaded, 
secondly the Gentoo init script added some options to the Asterisk startup 
that made the 'dial' command disappear. In /etc/init.d/asterisk you just 
needed to comment those option things out and then it worked fine.