asterisk users - Oct 2007 - Executing commands even if user hangs up.

Greetings,

I have a dialplan that calls the dictate application, but I want to do 
some post-processing on the RAW file created.  The post processing is 
working fine as long as the dictation application exits gracefully, but 
fails when the user simply hangs up.

How can I make sure the system() command is run regardless?

Example:

[test-dictation]
exten => 123,1,Dictate(/tmp/dictate)
exten => 123,2,System(post_processing_script.sh)
exten => 123,3,Wait,1
exten => 123,4,Hangup

Thanks

-jc

Jim Canfield wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have a dialplan that calls the dictate application, but I want to do 
> some post-processing on the RAW file created.  The post processing is 
> working fine as long as the dictation application exits gracefully, but 
> fails when the user simply hangs up.
>
> How can I make sure the system() command is run regardless?
>
> Example:
>
> [test-dictation]
> exten => 123,1,Dictate(/tmp/dictate)
> exten => 123,2,System(post_processing_script.sh)
> exten => 123,3,Wait,1
> exten => 123,4,Hangup
>
> Thanks
>
> -jc
>   
If you're always running your post processing script after the call is 
over, I'd suggest moving the System command to the h extension. The h 
extension is called on hangup, so it should clear up your issue.

Mark Michelson

Have you tried adding an 'h' extension in addition? If the caller hangs 
up in the middle of priority 1 of extension 123, it should then jump to 
priority 1 of extension h and continue.

;Add to the test-dictation context:
exten => h,1,System(post_processing_script.sh)

OR

;Not tested, but maybe just the following single line instead?
exten => h,1,Goto(123, 2)


Jim Canfield wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have a dialplan that calls the dictate application, but I want to do 
> some post-processing on the RAW file created.  The post processing is 
> working fine as long as the dictation application exits gracefully, but 
> fails when the user simply hangs up.
>
> How can I make sure the system() command is run regardless?
>
> Example:
>
> [test-dictation]
> exten => 123,1,Dictate(/tmp/dictate)
> exten => 123,2,System(post_processing_script.sh)
> exten => 123,3,Wait,1
> exten => 123,4,Hangup
>
> Thanks
>
> -jc
>
>
>
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Mojo with Horan & Company, LLC wrote:
> Have you tried adding an 'h' extension in addition? If the caller
hangs
> up in the middle of priority 1 of extension 123, it should then jump to 
> priority 1 of extension h and continue.
>
Thanks,

That works perfectly.