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Configuration editor doesn't show AEL files

Posted by gb_delti on Tue, 03/31/2009

Hi!

I wanted to migrate my configuration with many AEL files to PBXManager. Unfortunately the config editor doesn't show AEL files. At the moment my shell access is very restricted so I can't edit them with a shell. Is there a way to display and edit them with the configuration editor?

Greetings,

Gabriel


Submitted by gb_delti on Tue, 03/31/2009 Permalink

Yeah, FTP would work. But form a security standpoint you want to minimize the number of ways a server can be accessed and the number of services running.

And you don't want the files in /etc/asterisk to be group-writable, which is how we "solved" the problem for the time being.

The fact remains that the Configuration editor is not showing all possible config files. I had hoped for an answer like "Well just change value XX in file YY and AEL files will show up" or "Oh, this is a bug, it will be fixed in the next version" :)

Submitted by cbbs70a on Tue, 03/31/2009 Permalink

It does seem pretty bizarre as all of my other files in that directory appear to show up, such as *.conf.old, and *.conf.sav so it seems that Alex is just globbing all files in that directory. But the *.ael files do not show up. As a work around, I created a soft link to extensions.ael and it did show up.

If you do a "ln -s extensions.ael foo.conf" then you can edit foo.conf and it works, although creating a link called foo.ael does not work. This is definitely something that Alex needs to fix but this is a workaround until that happens.

FSD