[asterisk-users] OT - log rotation [solved]

[Steve Edwards]

> 2009/9/5 Steve Edwards <asterisk.org at sedwards.com>
>
>> <snip>
>> You can, but I don't. I do it like this:
>>
>> <snip>

On Sun, 6 Sep 2009, Olivier wrote:

> Very, very interesting practises.
>
> Originally, I opened this thread when I wondered whether or not, I 
> should centralize logs (and from that original question, I came to study 
> some tiny details like finding why some software needs to be notified of 
> log rotations and why some appearantly don't ...).
>
> What kept me from doing this before, is my capability to analyse a large 
> central log file compared to analyse several specific log files. With a 
> couple of grep commands, it should be possible to break a central file 
> back into several files, so the only downside of centralizing would be 
> having to edit those grep command lines.
>
> To avoid that, have you tried tools like phpLogCon ?

Nope. Never heard of phpLogCon before.

Back when I did web farms, we would break the multi-GB daily log file down 
by web site so we could distribute the logs to the groups responsible for 
those sites.

For Asterisk farms, I just keep all the log messages in a single file. 
When I'm curious, I run a script that (using egrep) discards everything 
I'm expecting so I only have to look at the unexpected.

I don't use the log files for statistics. I write everything I need for 
statistics to the database from my [AGI empowered] dialplan.

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Thanks in advance,
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