[Asterisk-Users] logrotate and logger reload

[Richard Lyman]

# This script asks asterisk to rotate its logs on its own.
     postrotate
       /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "logger rotate"
     endscript

is what we use and it seems to be just fine.
(logger reload reopens the log files, where logger rotate, 
rotates then then reopens)


Matt Florell wrote:
> Welcome to the club. That drove me crazy for a few hours one day until
> I realized that the Master.csv in cdr-custom was being written to(and
> not being rotated by anything) even though I never enabled it in the
> logger.conf.
> 
> I added it to my rotate script and all is fine now.
> 
> MATT---
> 
> 
> 
> On 6/9/06, Bob Knight <bk at minusw.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have one system that went totally crazy on me.
>> It went into an infinite loop rotating * message and log files.
>>  From the asterisk console I kept seeing the message about re-loading
>> logger.conf over and over and it just kept creating more and more files.
>> I baby set many different * boxes all running the same script without
>> this problem.
>> Here is my cron script:
>>
>> /var/log/asterisk/cdr-csv/*csv {
>>   missingok
>>   rotate 12
>>   monthly
>>   create 0640 root root
>> }
>>
>> /var/log/asterisk/*log /var/log/asterisk/messages {
>>    missingok
>>    rotate 5
>>    weekly
>>    create 0640 root root
>>    sharedscripts
>>    postrotate
>>        /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx 'logger reload' > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
>>    endscript
>> }
>>
>> --