[Asterisk-Users] Action on phone pickup

[Karl O. Pinc]

How do I get asterisk to do something when I pick up
a phone?  For instance, I've got a regular pots
phone hooked up to a zaptel interface, and I want
it to vocalize "hello" when I pick up the phone and
then give me a dial tone, wait for digits, make
a call, etc.

I tried the 's' extension in extensions.conf and setting 'immediate'
to "yes' in zapata.conf and that didn't seem to work.
(Not to mention I don't know how to get dial tone
and dialing behavior back after an application executes.)

Anybody got a clue they can slap me with?

Thanks.

Asterisk SVN-branch-1.2-r8905

Karl <kop at meme.com>
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