asterisk users - Jul 2005 - How to prevent log files from eating my hard drive?

Hello there,

Somehow, Asterisk log files are consuming all the space that I have in 
my hard disk...  They've already eaten 14GB and are still hungry!!  What 
shall I do?  I'm not even logging anything in verbose mode!!

Help really appreciated!!

Best,

Leo

Are you debugging something or you are AT&T?

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Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 12:28 PM
To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] How to prevent log files from eating my hard
drive?

Hello there,

Somehow, Asterisk log files are consuming all the space that I have in 
my hard disk...  They've already eaten 14GB and are still hungry!!  What 
shall I do?  I'm not even logging anything in verbose mode!!

Help really appreciated!!

Best,

Leo

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> Somehow, Asterisk log files are consuming all the
> space that I have in 
> my hard disk...  They've already eaten 14GB and are
> still hungry!!  What 
> shall I do?  I'm not even logging anything in
> verbose mode!!
Leo,
This can be done through editing of
/etc/logrotate.d/asterisk. This file contains a script
of log rotation. This is a sample file:

/var/log/asterisk/*log {
   missingok
   rotate 5
   weekly
   create 0640 asterisk asterisk
   postrotate
       /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx 'logger reload' >
/dev/null 2> /dev/null
   endscript
}

As you can see, the "rotate 5" means that it will keep
5 old files, you can reduce that number to 2 or 3 to
save some space.

Another thing you can do to save a LOT of space is to
change "weekly" to "daily", this way you will keep
only ONE DAY of logging data in the file.

Third thing you can do is to add "compress" statement
to the script, this will compress the old files.

I think if you'll combine those 3 options, you going
to have a log files that is almost 10% of what you
have now.

Regards.

Samy


		
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> Somehow, Asterisk log files are consuming all the space that I have in 
> my hard disk...  They've already eaten 14GB and are still hungry!! 
What
> shall I do?  I'm not even logging anything in verbose mode!!
> 
> Help really appreciated!!
Try this...
 cd /var/log/asterisk
 ls -al
you should see something like this:
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Jul  1 13:32 cdr-csv
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 May  6 10:24 cdr-custom
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  64674 Jun  1 06:55 debug
-rw-r--r--   1 root root      0 May  6 10:15 event_log
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 341834 Jul  5 13:50 messages
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   5928 Jul  4 18:34 queue_log

What are the sizes of those files?

If you see the debug file as being large, then look at
/etc/asterisk/logger.conf; you should see something like this:
console => notice,warning,error                                    
messages => notice,warning,error        ;,debug 

If the messages => line has the debug statement in it, then comment
it out like above and stop restart astersik.

If other log files are large, then post what you have so we 
have a clue what you doing.

Use a script to rotate the logs every night (by cron).  If you need one,
I'll post what I have.

That's only have the solution of course...you would have to write
another script to delete logs > X days old.

Anyone have one of those handy?

-----Original Message-----
From: Leo Burd [mailto:leob@media.mit.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 12:28 PM
To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] How to prevent log files from eating my hard
drive?

Hello there,

Somehow, Asterisk log files are consuming all the space that I have in
my hard disk...  They've already eaten 14GB and are still hungry!!  What
shall I do?  I'm not even logging anything in verbose mode!!

Help really appreciated!!

Best,

Leo