[asterisk-users] Lots and lots of log files

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 01:50:11PM -0400, J. Oquendo wrote:

> >>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.
> 

In this case, using xargs would exceed the maximal command-line length
(about 128kb on Linux).

Use a loop: for file in messages.* queue_log.*; do rm file; done

Slower, but would work.

One hint: check the log rotation configuration. Don't simply rotate
/var/log/asterisk/*' . Is this the case?

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