[asterisk-users] How to roll-over / move / rotate an Asterisk Master.csv call detail record (CDR) file every 15 minutes

[Paul Belanger]

On 12-12-04 12:59 AM, Earl Ruby wrote:
> If you are trying to provide CDR files to a billing service, such as
> WebCDR.com, you need to provide files containing your latest call data
> every 15 minutes or so. I wrote a script and a cron job that will create
> a new CDR file every 15 minutes with the latest CDR records, without
> interrupting call flow. You do not need to make any changes to your
> Asterisk configuration to use these scripts.
>
> There are two files that you need to install on your Asterisk server:
>
> asterisk-cdr-rollover.sh – A bash shell script. Copy this file into
> /usr/local/sbin. This script moves the file
> /var/log/asterisk/cdr-csv/Master.csv to a new file named
> /var/log/asterisk/cdr-csv/cdr-YYYYMMDDHHMISS.csv, where YYYYMMDDHHMISS
> is the current time. A new zero-byte Master.csv file is created using
> the default umask of the user running the asterisk process. Asterisk
> will start writing to the new Master.csv file at the end of the next call.
>
> asterisk-cdr-rollover – This is a cron job. Copy it into /etc/cron.d and
> it will run the /usr/local/sbin/asterisk-cdr-rollover.sh script once
> every 15 minutes.
>
> The cron job is set up to run as the user “asterisk”. If you are running
> asterisk as “root” or some other user name, edit the
> asterisk-cdr-rollover cron job and change the name of the user running
> the script to the same name as the user running the asterisk process.
>
> The latest versions of these two files can be downloaded from GitHub:
> https://github.com/earlruby/asterisk-cdr-rollover.
>
>
Why not use logroate?

$ man logrotate

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