[asterisk-users] Changing storm-prevention behaviour in logger.conf

[Barry Miller]

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 11:14:23PM +0200, Remco Bressers wrote:
> Dear List,
> 
> According to https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=14905 there is a storm
> prevention mechanism in newer Asterisks. If i look in my logfile, i see : 
> 
> [2010-04-17 15:12:01] NOTICE[1190] chan_sip.c: Registration from '"xxxx"
> <sip:xxx at xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx>' failed for 'xx.xx.xx.xx' - Wrong password
> [2010-04-17 15:12:01] NOTICE[1190] chan_sip.c: Last message repeated 3
> times
> 
> This IS a good thing to do, but i want to disable this behaviour. We are
> using fail2ban to ban scripts and people from the Asterisk system. On
> version 1.4.23 this worked fine, but now this mechanism is in place, i
> cannot use fail2ban anymore.
> 
> Is there any option to disable this behaviour, or even better, add it to
> logger.conf so anybody can decide what to do? I just want all logging and it seems impossible now.
> Maybe a patch on the source?

If you use a newer version of rsyslogd to do your logging, there is a
global configuration directive:

	$RepeatedMsgReduction off

that will do what you are asking.  The issue #14905 patch you mention is
not in 1.6.2.x.

-- 
Barry