Any idea what can cause this? asterisk*CLI> core show channels Channel Location State Application(Data) Logger/rotate s at default:1 Down (None) 1 active channel 0 active calls 20229 calls processed asterisk*CLI> core show chan channel channels channeltypes channeltype asterisk*CLI> core show channel Logger/rotate -- General -- Name: Logger/rotate Type: NULL UniqueID: 1265014922.40051 Caller ID: (N/A) Caller ID Name: (N/A) DNID Digits: (N/A) Language: en State: Down (0) Rings: 0 NativeFormats: 0x0 (nothing) WriteFormat: 0x0 (nothing) ReadFormat: 0x0 (nothing) WriteTranscode: No ReadTranscode: No 1st File Descriptor: -1 Frames in: 0 Frames out: 0 Time to Hangup: 0 Elapsed Time: 3h47m49s Direct Bridge: <none> Indirect Bridge: <none> -- PBX -- Context: default Extension: s Priority: 1 Call Group: 0 Pickup Group: 0 Application: (N/A) Data: (None) Blocking in: (Not Blocking) Variables: filename=/var/log/asterisk/messages CDR Variables: level 1: dst=s level 1: dcontext=default level 1: channel=Logger/rotate level 1: start=2010-02-01 04:02:02 level 1: duration=13668 level 1: billsec=0 level 1: disposition=NO ANSWER level 1: amaflags=DOCUMENTATION level 1: uniqueid=1265014922.40051 I have a process: 7630 ? S 0:00 gzip -9 /var/log/asterisk/messages.2 The directory looks wierd: [root at asterisk asterisk]# ls -l messages* -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Feb 1 04:02 messages.0 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Feb 1 04:02 messages.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 1 04:02 messages.1.1 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Feb 1 04:02 messages.1.1.1 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Feb 1 04:02 messages.1.1.1.1 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 3101914 Jan 31 23:14 messages.1.1.1.1.1 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5407775 Jan 1 00:08 messages.1.1.1.2 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Feb 1 04:02 messages.1.1.2 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jan 1 04:02 messages.1.1.2.1 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 914542 Dec 1 01:38 messages.1.1.3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 1 04:02 messages.1.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 1 04:02 messages.1.2.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 1 04:02 messages.1.2.1.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 1 04:02 messages.1.2.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 1 04:02 messages.1.3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 1 04:02 messages.1.3.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 774669 Nov 1 01:10 messages.1.4 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Feb 1 04:02 messages.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 1 04:02 messages.2.1 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jan 1 04:02 messages.2.1.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 1 04:02 messages.2.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 1 04:02 messages.2.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 1 04:02 messages.2.gz.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 1 04:02 messages.2.gz.1.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 1 04:02 messages.2.gz.1.1.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 1 04:02 messages.2.gz.1.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 1 04:02 messages.2.gz.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 1 04:02 messages.2.gz.2.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31 Nov 1 04:02 messages.2.gz.3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 1 04:02 messages.3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 1 04:02 messages.3.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 1 04:02 messages.3.1.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 1 04:02 messages.3.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 1 04:02 messages.4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 1 04:02 messages.4.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 1 04:02 messages.4.1.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 1 04:02 messages.4.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 1 04:02 messages.5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 1 04:02 messages.5.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 1 04:02 messages.5.1.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 1 04:02 messages.5.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 1 04:02 messages.6 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 1 04:02 messages.6.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 1 04:02 messages.7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 1 04:02 messages.7.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 1 04:02 messages.8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 169055 Oct 1 00:10 messages.9