[asterisk-users] How to access environment variable?

[Steve Edwards]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Steve Edwards wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Larry Alkoff wrote:
>
>> There must be a list in Asterisk that only allows cerain environmental 
>> variables to be shown.  A very unnecessary bummer.
>
> There is no list.
>
> Try executing a dialplan containing a priority like:
>
> 	exten = *,n,system(set >/tmp/what-asterisk-sees)
>
> to see what is actually in the Asterisk process's environment.
>
> My Asterisk startup script looks something like:
>
> 	env --ignore-environment\
> 		HOST=$HOST\
> 		PATH=/usr/local/bin/:/bin/\
> 		$ASTERISK\
> 		$START_OPTIONS
>
> so I control exactly what environment variables are passed.

Or, you can see Asterisk's environment using:

 	sudo cat /proc/`cat /var/run/asterisk.pid`/environ\
 		| tr "\000" "\n"

Thanks in advance,
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