[asterisk-users] [1.4/AGI] CHANNEL STATUS never "down & available"?

[Gilles]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:11:18 +0100, Gilles <codecomplete at free.fr>
wrote:
>>I'm guessing you would have better luck kicking off an external process 
>>that checks the channel status via AMI.
>
>Yes, it looks like it's not possible to reuse the FXO from either
>extensions.conf or through an AGI script.

I'm not having much luck with AMI: After typing the right commands, it
just stays there, not replying to the Login action:

================= /etc/asterisk> cat manager.conf
[general]
enabled = yes
webenabled = yes
port = 5038
bindaddr = 0.0.0.0

[admin]
secret=test
read = system,call,log,verbose,command,agent,user,config
write = system,call,log,verbose,command,agent,user,config
================= Telnet to TCP5038
Action: Login
Username: admin
Secret: secret
<just stays there, waiting>
================= CLI
CLI> manager show commands
Action           Privilege        Synopsis
------           ---------        --------
...
Hangup           call,all         Hangup Channel
ListCommands     <none>           List available manager commands
Logoff           <none>           Logoff Manager
MailboxCount     call,all         Check Mailbox Message Count
...
=================

It's odd that the Login command is not listed. FWIW, it's Asterisk
1.4.20.

Has someone seen this behavior and knows how to solve this?

Thank you.