May help people

I have just spent about 3 hours wondering why I couldn’t use an absolute path using playback/stream file etc.

I feel rather dumb (I put it down to a long day) so have spent 3 hours debugging where the issues was occurring. I run se-linux and this was the course however asterisk wasn’t helping me much with its errors.

Asterisk uses the system call “stat” to check for files but doesn’t include the error response, simply that it does not exists. perhaps including the error response would help trouble shoot - this will log why asterisk cannot open the sound file.

file.c - line approx 470 (asterisk 10)

edit to the below

                    if ( stat(fn, &st) ) { /* file not existent */

                            ast_log(LOG_WARNING, "Your Error : 15x %s\n", strerror(errno));
                            ast_free(fn);
                            continue;
                    }

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