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Asterisk: The Definitive Guide

Errata for Asterisk: The Definitive Guide

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Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
Other Digital Version
256-258
Creating a Simple ACD Queue 6th paragraph example

writed as:
$ sudo touch -u asterisk queues.conf

must be:
$ sudo -u asterisk touch queues.conf

Note from the Author or Editor:
Submitter is correct, and proposed correction is what is needed.

Thanks!

Jim

 Miguel E. Perez Cabrera  Aug 10, 2020 
Other Digital Version
256-258
Creating a Simple ACD Queue 7th paragraph example

Write as (missing open parentesis after VALUES):
INSERT INTO `asterisk`.`queues` (name,strategy,joinempty,leavewhenempty,ringinuse,autofill,musiconhold, \
monitor_format,monitor_type) VALUES 'sales','rrmemory','unavailable,invalid,unknown','unavailable,invalid,unknown','no','yes',\
'default','wav','MixMonitor'), ('support','rrmemory','unavailable,invalid,unknown','unavailable,invalid,unknown','no',\
'yes','default','wav' ,'MixMonitor') ;

Must be:
INSERT INTO `asterisk`.`queues` (name,strategy,joinempty,leavewhenempty,ringinuse,autofill,musiconhold, \
monitor_format,monitor_type) VALUES ('sales','rrmemory','unavailable,invalid,unknown','unavailable,invalid,unknown','no','yes',\
'default','wav','MixMonitor'), ('support','rrmemory','unavailable,invalid,unknown','unavailable,invalid,unknown','no',\
'yes','default','wav' ,'MixMonitor') ;

Note from the Author or Editor:
The submitter describes the fix perfectly.

 Miguel E. Perez Cabrera  Aug 10, 2020 
Other Digital Version
260-261
Creating a Simple ACD Queue after: Save and reload your queue configuration from the Asterisk CLI:

By said Other Digital version, I mean Google Play Book version.

writed as:
*CLI> queues reload

must be:
*CLI> queue reload

Note from the Author or Editor:
Thanks for submitting this!

You are correct and we'll get that sorted out in future printings.

Regards,

Jim

 Miguel E Perez Cabrera  Aug 11, 2020