[asterisk-users] Lots and lots of log files

[J. Oquendo]

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 10:52:52AM -0400, J. Oquendo wrote:
>   
>> Ejay Hire wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello all, and good morning
>>>
>>> In my /var/log/asterisk directory I have 492,018 log files, most of which
>>> are empty.
>>> event_log.XXX queue_log.XXX messages.XXX where XXX is an integer.
>>>
>>> I removed them all and restarted asterisk a few days ago, but they came
>>> back.
>>>
>>> This morning I turned off event and queue logging, but I would prefer to
>>> have the messages log.  I didn't see an entry for theis in logrotate.
>>>
>>> The root issue behind this is that I get a message about a signal that the
>>> log files are too big, and asterisk stops working.  None of my log files 
>>> are
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> 1mb though.  Restarting asterisk fixes it.  
>>>>    
>>>>         
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ejay
>>>
>>>
>>> ... System information 
>>>
>>> [root at localhost asterisk]# du -h /var/log/asterisk
>>> 1.3G    .
>>> 840K    ./cdr-csv
>>> 956K    ./cdr-custom
>>>
>>> Asterisk 1.2.11 
>>> Linux version 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp (gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat
>>> 3.4.6-3)) #1 SMP
>>> Asterisk 1.2.11 built by buildcentos @ localhost.localdomain on a i686
>>> running Linux 
>>> localhost*CLI> logger show channels 
>>> Channel                             Type     Status    Configuration
>>> -------                             ----     ------    -------------
>>> /var/log/asterisk/messages          File     Enabled    - Warning Notice
>>> Error 
>>>                                    Console  Enabled    - Warning Notice
>>> Error 
>>>
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>>>       
>> Edit /etc/asterisk/logger.conf then asterisk -rx "logger reload" or in 
>> cron the dirty way:
>>
>> 0 * * * *  ls -ltha /var/log/asterisk/|awk '{print $5,$9}'|grep "0 
>> "|grep -v [1-9]|xargs rm -rf
>>     
>
> Huh?
>
> Is it supposed to pick files in the csv dirs?
>
>   

No: His original post:

> In my /var/log/asterisk directory I have 492,018 log files, most of which
> are empty.
> event_log.XXX queue_log.XXX messages.XXX where XXX is an integer.



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