Apply Config - What if I don't want to?!

General Help
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I have experienced, and seen posts on this site by others with this issue:

“I have an outstanding ‘apply config’ and I don’t recall changing any configs, and I don’t know what it is going to do”.

Two questions arise:

  1. Is there some way of knowing what config changes are about to be applied when you push the big red button?
  2. Can I 'back out" instead ? ie - is there a ‘discard unapplied changes’ option hidden somewhere?

I haven’t found an answer to either question. Can anyone help?

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  1. No
  2. No
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Ok, I had feared that these were the answers…

[Rhetorical Question]

What, cosmically, is the point?

If I can’t back out… I have no option other than proceed… why do I have to click another button to ‘apply’?

[\Rhetorical Question]

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Its FreePBX design 101. I would read up on how retrieve_conf in FreePBX works and what that does.

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Was unhappy not knowing what was changed, so i logged in via shell made a copy of /etc/asterisk applied the changes, and then did a diff of the two folders. found the changes were likely from the previous admin, for some sip provider name changes, that were ok.

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It’s nice to be able to make multiple changes and not have them affect Asterisk until after hours.

I’d imagine some pioneering soul could hook into the reload process and make a file backup part of that process, allowing a comparison of the two versions.

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