[App_rpt-users] infinite loop

[Ken]

Some time ago, I posted something about the elements of a long-ish macro not
executing in the right sequence (such as playing recorded segments in the
wrong order and just blowing-by remote commands without executing them
properly). I never got any replies.

Eventually I found that I could run the whole thing as a Linux script with
interspersed "sleep" commands and make it all work properly -  like this
.....
.....
/usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun 27021 *4533"   ; remote command for 53MHz
node
sleep 5
/usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun 27021 *6601#"  ; put node 533 into bulletin
mode (SS1)
sleep 5
/usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun 27021 *9913"   ; play the recording
sleep 22m
(this last one plays ARRL Audio News).
.....
.....

This worked reliably when called from crontab, but there was no way to run
it from DTMF.

Recently, I found out about the "cmd" instruction - I thought "aha!)

9911=cmd,/usr/local/sbin/do_arrl.sh

But it seems that the script calls asterisk (from within asterisk) the whole
thing goes into some sort of infinite loop.  It does seem to have executed
the asterisk -rx calls at least 5 times before things went pear shaped.


So: is this the expected behavior? Is there a command line option on the
asterisk calls that can avoid the problem? Is there a different way to
accomplish this?

Tnx
Ken
KE2N