[asterisk-users] 1.6.2 No "soft hangup"?

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Tuesday 20 April 2010 11:49:47 Steve Edwards wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 April 2010 11:05:07 Steve Johnson wrote:
> >> I wanted to force a hangup of a SIP to SIP call from the Asterisk CLI>
> >> prompt, and found references on using the command "soft hangup
> >> <SIP/channel>", but as you can see below, the "soft hangup" command
> >> does not seem to exist, and there is no mention about it in the
> >> UPGRADE*.txt documents.
> >>
> >> Can anyone shed light on what would replace "soft hangup" in 1.6.2.x ??
> >> (This asterisk server is strictly SIP/IAX2, no DAHDI hardware)
> >
> > "channel request hangup <name>"
>
> How obvious.
>
> Kind of makes me wish I still used 1.2 -- oh wait, I do.
>
> Seriously though, IMNSHO, with every release the CLI gets more obtuse.
>
> I'd like to see a more natural and intuitive interface following a "verb
> noun" model like Oracle, MySQL, or even GDB.
>
>        hangup [sip|iax|dahdi] channel <channel-name>
>
> seems so "obvious."

There's now a cli_aliases.conf, starting in 1.6.2.  You're welcome to define
whatever grammar you like.

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