voicemail.conf in asterisk [was: Re: asterisk dapper.2114_to_dapper.2234 diff]

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 09:07:33PM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote:
> Tzafrir,
> 
> Am Montag, den 07.08.2006, 09:41 +0300 schrieb Tzafrir Cohen:
> > On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 09:10:28AM +0300, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> > > Hi Jonas,
> > > 
> > > I am trying to propagate your changes into the debian package (I will also 
> > > bring asterisk_fix into the main asterisk package "soon"). One small 
> > > question:
> > > 
> > > The chown you are using is weird... "asterisk:" I was under the impression 
> > > that is should be "asterisk:asterisk". The reason is that in order to make 
> > > ARI (http://www.littlejohnconsulting.com/ari) and freePBX 
> > > (http://freepbx.org) work, we need to add the www-data group into the 
> > > asterisk group and set those dir to be g+rw. 
> > 
> > Actually the file it needs to write is the infamous voicemail.conf . It
> > naturally needs to read that file. I'm not sure if it needs to read any
> > other files in the asterisk directory.
> 
> have I asked lately if recent asterisk does support a construct like
> "include => voicemail.whateverapp.conf" in voicemail.conf that we could
> then use to spin off the configuration into whatever frontend the user
> desires? 

Hmmm... Asterisk does, as with any config file. However...

voicemail.conf is parsed independently by any other program that wants
to use it as a "database". This includes app_voicemail itself when
writing a modified password. And just about any other program that deals
with the voicemail.

So the proirity here is to have a decent interface for voicemail and
have programs use it. The Asterisk manager interface is probably the
preffered option.

> That way a user could be prompted by debconf if now a symlink
> should be make (to voicemail.conf) or the include be set or the choice
> left to him, when and how to activate the remote configurability.
> 
> To condense my question: Can we make *one* (external) file be owned by
> freepbx and ARI and just set a small include or load into the main
> configuration file to make things work more nicely?

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