asterisk users - Oct 2003 - Questions about Zapateller and Privacy Manager

Hey all...I'm just getting my * setup and right now all I have is an FXO
but no FXS. I wan't to get rid of telemarketers by having * pick up the
phone if there is no CID present, give the caller the Zapateller tones
and then ask the user to input their phone number via Privacy Manager
(yes I realize that this won't get us any where given that I can't
re-ring the phones without FXS but that'll be my next purchase)

This is what I have in my extensions.conf:

[incoming]
exten =>  s/,1,Zapateller
exten =>  s,1,PrivacyManager
exten=>   s,2,Dial,IAX/192.168.2.69/|10

and I *think* this works...is there a good way of testing this besides
waiting for those lovely telemarketers to call?

It was suggested last night on #asterisk that I put s,2,PrivacyManager
instead of s,1,PrivacyManager but this seems to make PM think that there
is no CID present and it always picks up. I guess it also gives the
error of

WARNING[327697]: File pbx.c, Line 1754 (ast_pbx_run): Channel 'Zap/1-1'
sent into invalid extension 's' in context 'default', but no
invalid handler
    -- Hungup 'Zap/1-1'

Can somebody tell me that I'm doing this correctly AND explain why I'm
seeing this behavior when I do s,2,PM? I'm sure it just has to do with
not quite understanding how extensions works yet.

Thanks!
Chris

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On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 07:46:32 -0600, Chris Hirsch 
<chris@base2technology.com> wrote:
> [incoming]
> exten =>  s/,1,Zapateller
> exten =>  s,1,PrivacyManager
> exten=>   s,2,Dial,IAX/192.168.2.69/|10
You'll probably want:

exten => s/,1,Zapateller
exten => s,1,NoOp
exten => s,2,PrivacyManager
...

PrivacyManager should only pick up if there's no caller ID present, so 
that should do it.  The NoOp causes nothing to happen on priority 1 if 
there's caller ID.  :-)
> and I *think* this works...is there a good way of testing this besides
> waiting for those lovely telemarketers to call?
Call from a POTS line or whatnot and flag the call private/blocked/etc.  
Or, if you have a sufficiently useful cellphone, it'll do it too.  -rt

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