Why is this .call file running immediately instead of waiting for set time?

[ghurty]

Why is this .call file running immediately?

The file name is: 1015.test.call


I put in into /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing at 9:45 am, but it ran immediately instead of waiting until 10:15.


Thanks

 

[kenn10]

Why is this .call file running immediately?

The file name is: 1015.test.call


I put in into /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing at 9:45 am, but it ran immediately instead of waiting until 10:15.


Thanks

[B]How to schedule a Call in the Future [/B]
 
Files with a [B]modified[/B] date in the future are ignored until that time arrives. Create the file in /var/spool/asterisk/tmp, modify the mtime using "touch", and then move it... 
 
 
 
[FONT=monospace]$ date [/FONT]
[FONT=monospace]Mon Mar 19 13:52:30 EDT 2007 [/FONT]
[FONT=monospace]$ touch -d 20080101 /var/spool/asterisk/tmp/blah [/FONT]
[FONT=monospace]$ mv /var/spool/asterisk/tmp/blah . [/FONT]
[FONT=monospace]$ ls -l blah [/FONT]
[FONT=monospace]-rw-r--r--    1 andrew   users           0 Jan  1 00:00 blah [/FONT]
 
 
 
 
 
 
Bash example: to schedule a call in 100 s : 
 
[FONT=monospace]# gives you the current time in seconds since dawn of UNIX [/FONT]
[FONT=monospace]NOW=`date +%s` [/FONT]
[FONT=monospace]# add 100 seconds [/FONT]
[FONT=monospace]let NOW=$NOW+100 [/FONT]
[FONT=monospace]# create a timestamp used by 'touch -t' (no space between %M. %S, but the Wiki wants a space at this place) [/FONT]
[FONT=monospace]TOUCH_TMSP=`date -d "1970-01-01 $NOW sec GMT" +%Y%m%d%H%M. %S` [/FONT]
[FONT=monospace]# and do the touch [/FONT]
[FONT=monospace]touch -t $TOUCH_TMSP blah [/FONT]

 

[GlenPittman]

edited to move post to new thread, to avoid hijacking of thread.