Thanks, Andrew. That was the ticket -- specifying the timeout at the end of the originate command doesn't work. But the following works and causes the originate command to return an error status instead of a UUID, which is what I _originally_ wanted it to do!

The working syntax is below. Note that if the call goes unanswered the Erlang event callback does _not_ fire.

originate {call_timeout=2,originate_timeout=2}sofia/external/533@rats.marketel '&erlang( pbx_called_cust pursuit@testsrv )'

Andrew Thompson wrote:

On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 12:39:18PM -0600, Mark Sobkow wrote:

Never mind.  What's actually happening is now that I've got the Erlang 
events firing, the timeout on the originate command doesn't seem to be 
working.  I had a timeout of 5 seconds set, but Freeswitch kept ringing 
until our voice mail system answered my phone (30 seconds.)

*sigh*

Not that it's any better a result, as we DO need to timeout calls that 
aren't being answered.

Which timeout variable(s) are you setting, there are several and they
have different effects. See
http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Channel_Variables for at least a partial
list.

Andrew

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