[asterisk-users] Forking in Dialplan

[Tobias Ahlander]

>Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:54:27 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Steve Edwards <asterisk.org at sedwards.com>
>Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Forking in Dialplan
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>> ----- "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, Vin??cius 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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>Steve Edwards      sedwards at sedwards.com      Voice: +1-760-468-3867 PST
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Thank you Steve, this seems to work just as I want it to. Now I just have to
figure out how to send variables to a system call, but I think I have that
covered somewhere :)

Best regards,
Tobias
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