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spool

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Figure 3-4. /var/spool/asterisk/ directory structure
The dictate/ directory is the default location where the Dictate() application looks for
files.

The meetme/ directory is the location where MeetMe() conference recordings are saved.
Recordings from either one-touch recording (the w and W flags to the Dial() application),
the MixMonitor(), or Monitor() applications are stored in the monitor/ directory.
system/ is used by the System() application for temporary storage of data.

The tmp/ directory is used, funny enough, to hold temporary information. Certain
applications may require a place to write files to before copying the complete files to
their final destinations. This prevents two processes from trying to write to and read
from a file at the same time.
All voicemail and user greetings are contained within the voicemail/ directory. Exten-
sions configured in voicemail.conf that have been logged in to at least once are created
as subdirectories of voicemail/.

/var/run/
The /var/run/ directory contains the process ID (PID) information for all active pro-
cesses on the system, including Asterisk (as specified in the asterisk.conf file). Note
that /var/run/ is OS-dependent and may differ.

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