[asterisk-users] force soft hangup

[Gordon Henderson]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Vieri wrote:

> How can I "force" soft hangup (if that makes sense)?
>
> "show channels" reveals a stale sip channel. It's of
> an analog phone behind a Grandstream ATA which was
> communicating with another SIP softphone. The latter
> crashed. A soft hangup of the softphone seems to have
> worked but it doesn't for the analog/ATA phone. "show
> hints" also shows that it's InUse. But of course it
> isn't and noone can contact this extension since I
> disabled call waiting for it (I also rebooted the ATA
> and forced re-registration of the ATA SIP client).
>
> So how can I "kill" this channel without restarting
> the asterisk daemon?

Strangely enough the command in the CLI is:

   soft hangup <channel>

Just type soft hangup then push the TAB key and it will auto complete for 
you ...

Gordon