[asterisk-users] Logging different verbosity levels

[Antony Stone]

On Friday 20 May 2022 at 15:33:45, Antony Stone wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I'm trying to use different logging verbosity levels to get dialplan output
> into different log files, and there's clearly something I haven't
> understood about how Asterisk does this...
> 
> 
> I have the following in /etc/asterisk/logger.conf:

Hm, the formatting of this mail seems to have got somewhat mangled on its way 
through the list server, I think - I'll edit it and try again, just so it's 
easier for people to see what I did:

> [logfiles]
> logtest.verbose.0 => verbose(0)
> logtest.verbose.1 => verbose(1)
> logtest.verbose.2 => verbose(2)
> logtest.verbose.3 => verbose(3)
> logtest.verbose.4 => verbose(4)
> logtest.verbose.5 => verbose(5)
> logtest.verbose.6 => verbose(6)
> logtest.verbose.7 => verbose(7)
> logtest.verbose.8 => verbose(8)
> logtest.verbose.9 => verbose(9)
> 
> I then put the following at a particular point in my dialplan:
> 
> same => n,Verbose(0,Test message verbosity 0)
> same => n,Verbose(1,Test message verbosity 1)
> same => n,Verbose(2,Test message verbosity 2)
> same => n,Verbose(3,Test message verbosity 3)
> same => n,Verbose(4,Test message verbosity 4)
> same => n,Verbose(5,Test message verbosity 5)
> same => n,Verbose(6,Test message verbosity 6)
> same => n,Verbose(7,Test message verbosity 7)
> same => n,Verbose(8,Test message verbosity 8)
> same => n,Verbose(9,Test message verbosity 9)
> 
> I was expecting to get each message output into the respective filename,
> but instead I got 10 files with the expected filenames, and all containing
> every test message, no matter which verbosity level it was output at.
> 
> I'm sure there's just something basic which I haven't understaood from
> 
> https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+16+Application_Verbose
> 
> and
> 
> https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Logging+Configuration
> 
> 
> Can someone please show me what I'm missing, so that I can get each
> Verbose(N,Message) dialplan command to send its message into the log file
> numbered N?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Antony.

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