On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 12:40:38PM +0100, Conrad Wood wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 13:24 +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:42:37PM +0100, Conrad Wood wrote: > > > On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 08:55 +1300, Hadley Rich wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 18 October 2006 05:47, Conrad Wood wrote: > > > > > To do something similar, I created a dialplan extension that - if > > > > > dialled - creates a file on the server. If dialled again, it removes > > > > > the > > > > > file again. > > > > > Then, in the context of the phone I check for existence of that file > > > > > and > > > > > if it exists I play a busy signal and hangup. (Of course, unless the > > > > > extension to re-enable it is dialled ;) ). > > > > > Additionally, I ask the user for a password to lock/unlock it. > > > > > > > > This is a good use for the AstDB > > > > > > Sure is, but files in the filesystem are easier to process from > > > external (non-asterisk) programs. In my case, I have a web interface > > > that locks/unlocks phones too. > > > I find it most convenient to use 'ls' to look up the current status of > > > stuff. > > > > asterisk -rx could also be used. Or a phone menu. Problems with a phone > > menu: how can you tell the status? > > > > asterisk -rx requires access to the asterisk console
It requires access to the asterisk control socket: /var/run/asterisk.ctl or /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl, depends on your installation. Check the docs on asterisk.conf on setting it to a different ownership that root.root . > which throws its > own bunch of problems with permissions and scalability. I'd then prefer > to code it through the manager interface > but that seems like a terrible overkill here ;) > How would you use a phone menu for that? That sounds interesting. Our > users here like doing phonestuff on their phones rather than on websites > etc. DbGet/DbPut or whatever in the dialplan? (After all, a phone menu / IVR is basically a set of Asterisk contetxts calling each other) -- Tzafrir Cohen sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] icq#16849755 iax:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +972-50-7952406 jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xorcom.com _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
