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Check to make sure that you are creating the file elsewhere and then move or copy it into the outgoing directory. Otherwise if the file is still being written when asterisk tries to read it then it will fail.
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Check to make sure that you are creating the file elsewhere and then move or copy it into the outgoing directory. Otherwise if the file is still being written when asterisk tries to read it then it will fail.

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Well I did, many times, no luck. Is there a module needs to be loaded? Anything I am missing?
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Well I did, many times, no luck. Is there a module needs to be loaded? Anything I am missing?

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As suggested by others I have installed Samba on the Elastix box and set up the share. So now I can drom a CALL file into the /var/spool/asterisk/outgoi<wbr />ng folder. This works, but the file doesn't do anything! I mean Asterisk is not doing anything:<br />
Channel: SIP/211<br />
MaxRetries: 1 <br />
RetryTime: 60 <br />
WaitTime: 30 <br />
Context: from-internal <br />
Extension: 6173847XXXX <br />
Priority: 1<br />
AlwaysDelete: Yes<br />
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It doesn't even get deleted. Time is not in the future.<br />
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Any clues?<br />
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TIA<br />
<br />
Tom
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As suggested by others I have installed Samba on the Elastix box and set up the share. So now I can drom a CALL file into the /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing folder. This works, but the file doesn't do anything! I mean Asterisk is not doing anything:
Channel: SIP/211
MaxRetries: 1 
RetryTime: 60 
WaitTime: 30 
Context: from-internal 
Extension: 6173847XXXX 
Priority: 1
AlwaysDelete: Yes

It doesn't even get deleted. Time is not in the future.

Any clues?

TIA

Tom

Test.CALL file in place but no action?

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