asterisk users - May 2007 - question about more than one drop file

hello there all,
if i have a script that writes drop files into /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing
asterisk picks up the file and initiates the call just fine.
however, what is supposed to happen if more than one gets dropped in there
within like a second. Will it wait till the first is complete to initiate
the second ?
Do they dissapear ?

thanks
shawn
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Good question shawn,

The callfile does get deleted once the call has been finished (I believe 
its FINISHED, not processed)

No, they are not executed sequentially......exactly. Well, from your 
point of view, you can drop tons of them in there and all of the calls 
will fire up. I have dropped over 200 in at the same time (well, as fast 
as mv can write them.) And the asterisk box went through all of them.


So if its a time thing, you should not have to worry about it.

-bkruse

shawn bright wrote:
> hello there all,
> if i have a script that writes drop files into 
> /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing
> asterisk picks up the file and initiates the call just fine.
> however, what is supposed to happen if more than one gets dropped in 
> there
> within like a second. Will it wait till the first is complete to 
> initiate the second ?
> Do they dissapear ?
>
> thanks
> shawn
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shawn,
you can set an archive variable in the .call file to 'yes' and it will 
save it in ./outgoing_done... if there is now outbound line availible, 
the .call file is updated (appended to) as per the status... * will keep 
trying till it completes the calls or the number of retries is reached.  
then it will archive the .call file if archive=yes...  if you drop a ton 
of files in the ./outgoing, it tries to make all the calls at 'almost' 
once.   if you drop 20 .call files in there in about 2 seconds, all 
calls will initiate.  if you have less than 20 outbound lines, the will 
all get stalled (for lack of a better word) and queue up until an 
outbound line is freed up...
daveC

shawn bright wrote:
> hello there all,
> if i have a script that writes drop files into 
> /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing
> asterisk picks up the file and initiates the call just fine.
> however, what is supposed to happen if more than one gets dropped in 
> there
> within like a second. Will it wait till the first is complete to 
> initiate the second ?
> Do they dissapear ?
>
> thanks
> shawn
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