[asterisk-users] Asterisk Message Logs

[Ron Joffe]

On Thursday 23 August 2007 14:00, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> >
> > I utilize this command:
> >
> > nohup script -f -c "asterisk -vvvTn" /tmp/asterisk.log &
> >
> > To start up my apps. This will log everything to a log file.
>
> Why nohup? And if you have nohup, why script?
>
> It will log everything until the cotrolling terminal is lost, right? I
> think what you're actually looking for is screen.
>
>
> If you want asterisk daemonized but still want it verbose, use -F

I call asterisk startup from a shell script. "nohup" will guarantee that the 
process will not die if the calling process (whatever started the shell 
script) dies.

script is what I use to make sure that everything that would otherwise go to 
the asterisk cli output makes it into that file. We spawn our own extensions 
from asterisk which the asterisk logging facility does not capture. This way 
we get everything that would be seen on the cli. I'm not looking for screen 
functionality.

-F is not an option on my version of asterisk.

Ron