[asterisk-users] cdr-custom rotate?

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <200808090226.00264.tilghman at mail.jeffandtilghman.com>,
Tilghman Lesher <tilghman at mail.jeffandtilghman.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 09 August 2008 01:53:49 Venefax wrote:
> > I have to rotate the Master.csv every 5 minutes, on a heavy loaded system.
> > I use cdr-custom. How do I force asterisk to rename the cdr file every 5
> > mins? Is there a way?
> 
> Add to your crontab:
> 
> */5 * * * * 
> mv /var/spool/asterisk/cdr-custom/Master.csv /var/spool/asterisk/cdr-custom/Master-`date 
> +%Y%m%d-%H%M`.csv
> (all on one line)

You will need to escape the % chars with \ to keep cron happy
(as I discovered when I tested my solution before posting :-)

Cheers
Tony
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