[Asterisk-Users] Placing call files in/var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/ does not work

[Jimmy Smith]

make sure that the shell location is right...

#!/bin/bash
not equal to
#!//ust/local/bin

common mistake..



On 5/25/06, Maxim Vexler <hq4ever at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/24/06, Michael Collins <mcollins at fcnetwork.com> wrote:
> > > you should mv the file (and in the same filesystem, so 'rename' is
> > used)
> > >
> >
> > You might want to chmod or even chown the file first as well.  I wrote a
> > little script that does all of this before the .call file is mv'd into
> > the outgoing directory:
> >
> > cp /tmp/test3.call /tmp/test1.call
> > chmod 666 /tmp/test1.call
> > chgrp asterisk /tmp/test1.call
> > chown asterisk /tmp/test1.call
> > mv /tmp/test1.call /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/
> >
> > I've been doing a lot of test calls to work on other aspects of .call
> > files, so this script is quite handy for making the same call over and
> > over again.
> >
> > HtH
> >
> > -MC
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>
> Thank you both, Tzafrir and Michael.
> I ended up using the script from
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+tips+callback
>
> It looks like this:
> <<<
> #!/bin/bash
>
>      if [ "x$1" != "x" ];then phone_number="$1"; else return 1; fi
>
>       #note use of '-' in '-EOF1' - Escapes tab at beginning of lines
>       CALLFILE=$(cat <<-EOF1
> Channel: Zap/g0/$phone_number
> MaxRetries: 2
> # Retry in 5 min
> RetryTime: 300
> WaitTime: 45
>
> Context: ext-local
> Extension: 211
> Priority: 1
>
> EOF1
> )
>        echo "$CALLFILE" >> "/var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/max.call"
>        # echo "$CALLFILE" >> "/tmp/calltomake.txt"
> >>>
>
> I call it by doing a simple ./makecall.sh SOMEPHONE
>
> The only problem I'm having now is that I must run the script as user
> asterisk, otherwise I get the same asterisk error as before.
>
> Is there any way to fix this ?
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Maxim Vexler
>
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