[Asterisk-Users] rotate * log file?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 10:26:38AM -0600, Rich Adamson wrote:
> 
> Running fc3 with current cvs-head...
> 
> Is there a nice way to rotate the /var/log/asterisk/messages file without
> shutting down asterisk?
> 
> I'm currently rotating the log files via cron, however my script requires
> asterisk to be shut down, which also kills any outstanding cli sessions
> (eg, asterisk -rvvvvv). Would like to rotate the files without killing
> the cli session. Any reasonable way to accomplish this?

Here's what Debian installs at /etc/logrotate.d/asterisk:

/var/log/asterisk/cdr-csv/Master.csv /var/log/asterisk/debug /var/log/asterisk/event_log /var/log/asterisk/messages {
        weekly
        missingok
        rotate 4
        sharedscripts
        postrotate
                /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d asterisk logger-reload
        endscript
}



Naturally the post-rotate script may differ on your system. logger-reload
is a glorified 'asterisk -rx logger reload' . logrotate is a standard part 
of most linux distros.

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