[asterisk-users] Catch an event

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 09:56:57PM +0200, Olivier Saulnier wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like for some reasons, catch the ring event since Asterisk, in 
> real-time. Is this information record in a database? How can I read it, 
> immediatly?
> I either think to catch the information by a little shell script as:
> asterisk -r |tail -1|grep ring|awk ...  and redirect the internal number 
> to an application fir process?
> Do you see a best way to do that??

tail -f /var/log/asterisk/full | grep whatever

However a mor robust way would be to use the manager interface.

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