[asterisk-users] Forking in Dialplan

[Steve Edwards]

> ----- "Tobias Ahlander" <plyschen at gmail.com> escreveu:

>> Is it possible to somehow fork in the dialplan? Say a call comes in. 
>> Then I want to wait 30 seconds and then write in a database, but at the 
>> same time while I wait I want to go on with other commands too.

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Vinícius Fontes wrote:

> You can call an AGI script that will call another script. That last one 
> would wait 10 seconds and write in the database. The following example 
> works for me:
>
> /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/agi-test.agi:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> nohup /root/helloworld.sh 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null &
> exit 0
>
> /root/helloworld.sh:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> sleep 10
> echo "Hello world!" >> /root/helloworld.txt
> exit 0

Why do you need the first AGI? Would:

 	exten = _x.,n,system(nohup /root/helloworld.sh 1>/dev/null 2>&1 &)

suit your needs?

Thanks in advance,
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