asterisk users - Jun 2004 - Voicemail Password Changes Lost on Asterisk Restart

Ok I have googled and googled and combed through the wiki for an answer to
this and have come up empty. What I'm finding is that when a user changes
their
VM password, it is saved somewhere like maybe the CSV database or something
because when you log in, the new password works fine, but it's not saving to
voicemail.conf. So new passwords are lost when asterisk is restarted and
people become annoyed...

I get the feeling from reading the wikis about VoiceMailMain() that you
really need to use cdr_<insert your favorite database here> to keep
passwords on restart
but it's not said out right.

Is this true? Or can asterisk save to the voicemail.conf and I just need to
update my CVS?

    -Chris

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:22:40 -0700, Chris Shaw <chriss@watertech.com>
wrote:

<snip>
> Is this true? Or can asterisk save to the voicemail.conf and I just need to
> update my CVS?
> 
>    -Chris
I don't know about the rest, but my Asterisk install certainly updates
voicemail.conf when changing passwords. I just tested then to make
sure and it updated.

Using stable CVS-06/07/04-16:18:54

-Shaun

Chris Shaw wrote:
> Ok I have googled and googled and combed through the wiki for an
> answer to this and have come up empty. What I'm finding is that when
> a user changes their VM password, it is saved somewhere like maybe
> the CSV database or something because when you log in, the new
> password works fine, but it's not saving to voicemail.conf. So new
> passwords are lost when asterisk is restarted and people become
> annoyed...      
> 
> I get the feeling from reading the wikis about VoiceMailMain() that
> you really need to use cdr_<insert your favorite database here> to
> keep passwords on restart but it's not said out right.  
> 
> Is this true? Or can asterisk save to the voicemail.conf and I just
> need to update my CVS? 
> 
>     -Chris
> 

Nah, it's because the file isn't writeable by whover asterisk runs as,
I'm
pretty sure.  Works fine running as root on my machine.

The problem is resolved... I updated to the very latest CVS and it seems to
work now...

Thanks to everyone who commented...

    -Chris