[asterisk-users] pstn hangs up: MWI no message waiting ??

[sean darcy]

Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Friday 16 January 2009 17:43:21 sean darcy wrote:
>> Danny Nicholas wrote:
>>> Why not do a "zap restart" instead of restarting asterisk?  You could
>>> write an AGI to do the ZR when the condition occurred and lines where
>>> empty.
>> Yes, a cron job to restart zaptel would cut off any call then existing.
>>
>> But how would I test for it? I can imagine:
>>
>> exten=>s,n,ExecIf(<some damn thing>, System(service dahdi restart))
>>
>> It's the <some damn thing> I can't imagine. How do you test if dahdi is
>> acting up?
> 
> Not a service restart, but a "dahdi restart".  You can't restart the dahdi
> service without first stopping Asterisk, anyway.
> 
> if [ `../asterisk-trunk/contrib/scripts/astcli "core show channels" | wc -l` = 
> 3 ]; then asterisk -rx 'dahdi restart'; fi
> 

Wow. I'll try that tomorrow. Put it as the cmd right after answer(), 
right? Or maybe, h,1 ?

Well anyway, at least I'll be able to receive calls over pstn with dahdi.

Thanks.

sean