Pending Call Files

Asterisk Asterisk Support
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Hello,

FreePBX/Asterisk 14

http://the-asterisk-book.com/1.6/call-file.html

I’ve successfully setup a call file that calls people back in 45 minutes using the touch and mv commands:

exten => _*77*XXXXXXXXXXXX,n,System(touch -t ${year}${month}${day}${hours}${minutes}+45 /tmp/${UNIQUEID}.call)
exten => _*77*XXXXXXXXXXXX,n,System(mv /tmp/${UNIQUEID}.call /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/)

I have observed that instead of showing up in /tmp/ the call files appear immediately in /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/ but do not process until the touch timer elapses.

Question:
If I wanted to process the pending call files early, is there a way to do that?

Thanks for any insights!

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You can touch the files again to update their timestamp with the new time you want the files to run at.

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Thanks!

If I put a time in the past (for simplicity) would that work? Or does it have to be the future?

Also do you know if the touch has to happen in /tmp/ (looks empty) or /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/?

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Well, It’s going to be hard for Asterisk to process your files at the correct time if they are in the past.

The only exception I can think of is if your location has daylight savings time, Then it might work during one hour a year.

The files need to be in the spool directory to be processed by Asterisk.

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