[Asterisk-Users] How to prevent log files from eating my hard drive?

[Rich Adamson]

> Somehow, Asterisk log files are consuming all the space that I have in 
> my hard disk...  They've already eaten 14GB and are still hungry!!  What 
> shall I do?  I'm not even logging anything in verbose mode!!
> 
> Help really appreciated!!

Try this...
 cd /var/log/asterisk
 ls -al
you should see something like this:
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Jul  1 13:32 cdr-csv
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 May  6 10:24 cdr-custom
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  64674 Jun  1 06:55 debug
-rw-r--r--   1 root root      0 May  6 10:15 event_log
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 341834 Jul  5 13:50 messages
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   5928 Jul  4 18:34 queue_log

What are the sizes of those files?

If you see the debug file as being large, then look at
/etc/asterisk/logger.conf; you should see something like this:
console => notice,warning,error                                    
messages => notice,warning,error        ;,debug 

If the messages => line has the debug statement in it, then comment
it out like above and stop restart astersik.

If other log files are large, then post what you have so we 
have a clue what you doing.