asterisk users - Dec 2005 - ast_sock_cmd: pipe commands to asterisk

If you need to pipe commands to Asterisk without resorting to the
manager interface (e.g: requiring a specific user, hard-wiring password
or other authentication messure. After all: you're root of the machine
and know better than that lousy Asterisk process), you may want to use
the following.

It is a simple C program to pipe commands to asterisk.ctl . It was
written to help me and thus hardwires the path I use
(/var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl ) , but I'd welcome any fixes for that.

Usage:

build with:

  make ast_sock_cmd

example usage:

  echo -e "set verbose 3\nset debug 5" | ./ast_sock_cmd
  
  echo -e "restart now" | ./ast_sock_cmd

I'd also be happy to know of existing alternatives. It looked strange I
could not find such an existing tool to pipe text into a unix-domain
socket.

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On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 09:01:04PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen
wrote:
> If you need to pipe commands to Asterisk without resorting to the
> manager interface (e.g: requiring a specific user, hard-wiring password
> or other authentication messure. After all: you're root of the machine
> and know better than that lousy Asterisk process), you may want to use
> the following.
> 
> It is a simple C program to pipe commands to asterisk.ctl . It was
> written to help me and thus hardwires the path I use
> (/var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl ) , but I'd welcome any fixes for that.
Or a simpler and aslightly more capable perl script. Attached.


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On 12/23/05 03:01 Tzafrir Cohen said the following:
> example usage:
> 
>   echo -e "set verbose 3\nset debug 5" | ./ast_sock_cmd
>   
>   echo -e "restart now" | ./ast_sock_cmd
> 
> I'd also be happy to know of existing alternatives. It looked strange I
> could not find such an existing tool to pipe text into a unix-domain
> socket.
how different is this from using the following,

asterisk -rx 'set verbose 3'
asterisk -rx 'restart now'


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