Config file updating, but not being reloaded by asterisk

[shm267]

When I make changes in the GUI, the changes are being regenerated in the configuration files, but for some reason, they are not being loaded into asterisk. I have to manually go to rasterisk and reload. What am I missing here?

[mflorell]

Asterisk version?

admin.php version and build?

How exactly did you install ViciDial?

[shm267]

Asterisk version? 1.4.21.2

admin.php version and build? PHP 5.1.6/2.0.5-173 (Build 90320-0424)

How exactly did you install ViciDial? Per the install from scratch.

It was built on the CentOS 5.3 Final

[mflorell]

Are you using the start_asterisk_boot.pl script to start Asterisk?

[shm267]

Nope, I am using the built in centOS service start scripts.

[mflorell]

Yet another reason not to use CentOS

For all of the features of ViciDial to work properly you need to use the start_asterisk_boot.pl script to start Asterisk.

[shm267]

So am I to guess than rather sending the reload command through the manager interface, you are doing this via screen?

[mflorell]

Exactly, the ONLY 100% reliable way to reload modules on a heavily loaded Asterisk instance is to connect to the original Asterisk process and issue the commands directly. It took us a while to figure this out and get it to work properly, but it has proven itself in very large multi-server ViciDial installations.

[gardo]

Instead of running Asterisk via the systems' startup services, append it this to your /etc/rc.local file:

### load timer source
modprobe zaptel
#modprobe wcfxo
modprobe ztdummy
ztcfg -vvvvvvvvvvvv

### sybsys local login
touch /var/lock/subsys/local

### sleep for 20 seconds before launching Asterisk
sleep 20

### start up asterisk
#/usr/share/astguiclient/start_asterisk_boot.pl

Modify it according to your system. Any other Linux distro using it's own built-in startup service scripts to fire Asterisk will miss-out on something. This is not CentOS specific.