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2022-May-25 13:27 UTC
[asterisk-users] Logging different verbosity levels
On 5/25/2022 8:11 AM, Antony Stone wrote:> On Tuesday 24 May 2022 at 01:12:46, Kevin Harwell wrote: > >> So this turned out more complicated than I originally thought! > Wow, thank you very much for: > > a) such a comprehensive answer > > b) confirming my findings > > c) most of all, working out why and how all this stuff works (or, perhaps, > doesn't). > > I wonder that nobody has discovered this before - do people not want selective > logging levels in their dialplans?If I want to log something from the dialplan, I generally send it to a custom log level, as opposed to one of the built in ones. That way, it's not combined with a bunch of other stuff from Asterisk itself that I generally don't want. This also allows filtering on specific custom log levels. Verbose gets used for so much that if something got logged there it would just get lost.
On Wednesday 25 May 2022 at 15:27:38, asterisk at phreaknet.org wrote:> On 5/25/2022 8:11 AM, Antony Stone wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 May 2022 at 01:12:46, Kevin Harwell wrote: > >> So this turned out more complicated than I originally thought! > > > > Wow, thank you very much for: > > > > a) such a comprehensive answer > > > > b) confirming my findings > > > > c) most of all, working out why and how all this stuff works (or, > > perhaps, doesn't). > > > > I wonder that nobody has discovered this before - do people not want > > selective logging levels in their dialplans? > > If I want to log something from the dialplan, I generally send it to a > custom log level, as opposed to one of the built in ones.How are you doing this?> That way, it's not combined with a bunch of other stuff from Asterisk itself > that I generally don't want. This also allows filtering on specific custom log > levels. Verbose gets used for so much that if something got logged there > it would just get lost.Indeed - that was precisely my reasoning for wanting to use the different Verbose(N,message) levels and corresponding log files - so that I could keep specific things separate from each other. Antony. -- There's a good theatrical performance about puns on in the West End. It's a play on words. Please reply to the list; please *don't* CC me.