[Asterisk-Users] Outgoing spool file ignored

[Eric Wieling aka ManxPower]

trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com wrote:

> How do you create them?
> 
> There is a race condition with asterisk and the spool where if you
> create the file or copy it into the queue directory asterisk tries to
> read and parse the file before you have finished writing it.  A
> suggested method instead is to create it on the same partition then move
> it into the appropriate directory to prevent this from occuring.

Create the file somwhere else.  Set the mtime (I think) to sometime in 
the future.  Move the file to /var/spool/asterisk/ourgoing.  Change 
the mtime to the current time or some time in the past.

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