asterisk users - Jul 2005 - voicemail.conf overwritten

I'm trying to set up a base * configuration in a version control system.

I have nearly all the system-specific configuration pulled out into a
subdirectory so that /etc/asterisk is very generic and I can copy it into
another system when I create it.

The only stickler is voicemail.conf.

Includes within voicemail.conf will work, but when a user changes their
password, * cannot put the change into the included file and a restart would
wipe out password changes.

I tried using symlinks and hard links and it appears that when a user changes
their VM password, the file is deleted and rewritten.  Those semantics defeat
both types of links.

I will have to ponder this issue for a bit.  If anyone has suggestions, please
offer them.  If I come up with a solution transparent to the revision control
system (subversion), I will report back to the list.

Thank you.

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On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 09:53:46AM -0400, Michael George
wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a base * configuration in a version control
system.
> 
> I have nearly all the system-specific configuration pulled out into a
> subdirectory so that /etc/asterisk is very generic and I can copy it into
> another system when I create it.
> 
> The only stickler is voicemail.conf.
> 
> Includes within voicemail.conf will work, but when a user changes their
> password, * cannot put the change into the included file and a restart
would
> wipe out password changes.
> 
> I tried using symlinks and hard links and it appears that when a user
changes
> their VM password, the file is deleted and rewritten.  Those semantics
defeat
> both types of links.
> 
> I will have to ponder this issue for a bit.  If anyone has suggestions,
please
> offer them.  If I come up with a solution transparent to the revision
control
> system (subversion), I will report back to the list.
On a related topic:

I use an external command to change the password in the included files.
Following Asterisk's logic, that external command should have updated
the password app_voicemail remembers internally:

  http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=4602

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