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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">This ended up being a log file permissions issue. However this worked with root permission only - exec_msg("echo ‘TEST’ > /usr/local/etc/kamailio/test.txt");<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">This syntax was correct - exec_msg("/usr/local/etc/kamailio/script.py ‘arg1’ ‘arg2’ ‘arg3’");<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Thanks for the input.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-dan<span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> sr-users [mailto:sr-users-bounces@lists.kamailio.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>otron2016@gmail.com<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 11, 2017 10:08 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Kamailio (SER) - Users Mailing List <sr-users@lists.kamailio.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [SR-Users] Exec - call python script with arguments<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Probably not the problem though it could be. ...try:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">"python /usr/local/etc/kamailio/<a href="http://script.py/">script.py</a> arg1 arg2 arg3"</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">instead--kamailio doesn't have your shell env and might not pass the script to python even if the script has the #! declaration. </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Also, if you pasted the exact command I think there's no space between .py and arg1 (or that could just be my phone).</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Hth.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;color:#575757">Sent from Samsung Mobile<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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-------- Original message --------<br>
From: "Daniel W. Graham" <<a href="mailto:dan@cmsinter.net">dan@cmsinter.net</a>>
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Date: 12/10/2017 1:04 PM (GMT-06:00) <br>
To: "Kamailio (SER) - Users Mailing List" <<a href="mailto:sr-users@lists.kamailio.org">sr-users@lists.kamailio.org</a>>
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Subject: [SR-Users] Exec - call python script with arguments <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Trying to call a python script using exec_msg and haven’t had any luck.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The following works:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">exec_msg("echo ‘TEST’ > /usr/local/etc/kamailio/test.txt");<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The following works from shell:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">/usr/local/etc/kamailio/script.py arg1 arg2 arg3<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The following does not work from kamailio:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">exec_msg("/usr/local/etc/kamailio/script.py arg1 arg2 arg3");<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">(The arguments are just strings for test purposes)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Kamailio is running as kamailio user<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Permissions:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">755 script.py<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Any idea what could be going wrong?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">-dan<o:p></o:p></p>
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