Extensions.conf warning in log file

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Hello,

I don’t have a lot of experience managing Asterisk or FreeBPX. however I noticed the following in my logs:

[2018-09-17 13:06:47] WARNING[17592] pbx_config.c: The use of ‘_.’ for an extension is strongly discouraged and can have unexpected behavior. Please use ‘_X.’ instead at line 5648 of /etc/asterisk/extensions_additional.conf
[2018-09-17 13:06:47] WARNING[17592] pbx_config.c: The use of ‘_.’ for an extension is strongly discouraged and can have unexpected behavior. Please use ‘_X.’ instead at line 5649 of /etc/asterisk/extensions_additional.conf
[2018-09-17 13:06:47] WARNING[17592] pbx_config.c: The use of ‘_.’ for an extension is strongly discouraged and can have unexpected behavior. Please use ‘_X.’ instead at line 127 of extensions.conf
[2018-09-17 13:06:47] WARNING[17592] pbx_config.c: The use of ‘_.’ for an extension is strongly discouraged and can have unexpected behavior. Please use ‘_X.’ instead at line 128 of extensions.conf

I vi’d the 2 files in question and found the lines where there is indeed a “_.”. There is a header at the beginning of each file stating that FreePBX has control of these files.

So my questions are:

  1. is something to be worried about these warnings?
  2. where in the FreePBX gui do I make the needed changes?

Thanks in advance.

–Kenny

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So my questions are:
1.is something to be worried about these warnings?
2.where in the FreePBX gui do I make the needed changes?

Thanks in advance.

  1. No, they are there on purpose.
  2. See 1.
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Dave,

Thanks for the reply. However I’m a mite confused.

If the warnings are there on purpose, then how do I correct the issue causing the warning?

If the issues don’t need to be corrected then why are they in the logs?!?

Appreciated.
–Kenny

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You can’t correct it.

There is a disagreement between Digium and Sangoma on this warning. Sangoma does not believe it is an issue, Digium does (did)

See above.

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Doh!! Hate it when mom and dad fight…
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Ok I’ll just ignore this for now.
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Thank you for the lesson. Most appreciated
–Kenny

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Under /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf

[options]
dontwarn=yes
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Andrew,

Thanks for the suggestion, however it didn’t work. I made the change and a minor change to get the GUI to apply the changes and the warnings continue.

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It does work You have to restart asterisk.

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