Asterisk 13 Logging To Two Places

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Switched from Asterisk 1.8 to 13.3.2. Now it logs to /var/log/asterisk/full (good) as well as /var/log/messages (not good). Anyone know why?

# grep -v “^;” logger.conf

[general]
[logfiles]
console => notice,warning,error messages => error full => notice,warning,error,debug,verbose,dtmf,fax

Thankfully, the …/full logs are rotating properly now (thanks Dale) but we don’t need both files cluttered up. We use /var/log/asterisk/full pretty extensively for troubleshooting, but I want /var/log/messages for other stuff. Didn’t do this under the old version.

Any other files you want to see?

Running on CentOS release 7.1.1503

Thomas M. Peters | Systems Administrator | tpeters@mcts.org Desk: 414.343.1720 | Helpdesk: x3400 or helpdesk@mcts.org

8 thoughts on - Asterisk 13 Logging To Two Places

  • asterisk -rx “logger reload”

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    Telecomunicaciones Abiertas de México S.A. de C.V. Carlos Chávez dCAP #1349
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  • Ok, commented out that line. It’s still doing it. Reloaded dialplan. Please don’t tell me I have to restart asterisk.

    Thomas M. Peters | Systems Administrator | tpeters@mcts.org Desk: 414.343.1720 | Helpdesk: x3400 or helpdesk@mcts.org

    messages => error

    states to log error messages to ‘messages’ log file

  • Still doing it. And the messages in there (/var/log/messages) are not just errors. They look a lot like the verbose log entries I’m seeing in
    /var/log/asterisk/full Recall that my original logger.conf had
    messages => error in it.

    Jun 22 03:23:39 deneb asterisk: [Jun 22 03:23:39] — Called IAX2/incoming2fdapbx:sgsdfgsdgsdfg@xd-apbx.mcts.org/5263
    Jun 22 03:23:39 deneb asterisk: [Jun 22 03:23:39] — Call accepted by 192.168.2.210:4569 (format ulaw)
    Jun 22 03:23:39 deneb asterisk: [Jun 22 03:23:39] — Format for call is (ulaw)
    Jun 22 03:23:39 deneb asterisk: [Jun 22 03:23:39] —
    IAX2/192.168.2.210:4569-14947 is ringing Jun 22 03:23:46 deneb asterisk: [Jun 22 03:23:46] —
    IAX2/192.168.2.210:4569-14947 answered DAHDI/i1/4148034154-fde Jun 22 03:23:46 deneb asterisk: [Jun 22 03:23:46] — Channel DAHDI/i1/4148034154-fde joined ‘simple_bridge’ basic-bridge

    Jun 22 03:23:46 deneb asterisk: [Jun 22 03:23:46] — Channel IAX2/192.168.2.210:4569-14947 joined ‘simple_bridge’ basic-bridge

    Jun 22 03:24:22 deneb asterisk: [Jun 22 03:24:22] — Span 1:
    Channel 0/1 got hangup request, cause 16
    Jun 22 03:24:22 deneb asterisk: [Jun 22 03:24:22] — Channel DAHDI/i1/4148034154-fde left ‘simple_bridge’ basic-bridge

    Jun 22 03:24:22 deneb asterisk: [Jun 22 03:24:22] — Channel IAX2/192.168.2.210:4569-14947 left ‘simple_bridge’ basic-bridge

    Jun 22 03:24:22 deneb asterisk: [Jun 22 03:24:22] == Spawn extension
    (to-internal, 5263, 5) exited non-zero on ‘DAHDI/i1/4148034154-fde’
    Jun 22 03:24:22 deneb asterisk: [Jun 22 03:24:22] — Executing
    [h@to-internal:1] NoOp(“DAHDI/i1/4148034154-fde”, “Hangup”) in new stack Jun 22 03:24:22 deneb asterisk: [Jun 22 03:24:22] — Hungup
    ‘IAX2/192.168.2.210:4569-14947’
    Jun 22 03:24:22 deneb asterisk: [Jun 22 03:24:22] — Hungup
    ‘DAHDI/i1/4148034154-fde’
    Jun 22 03:29:26 deneb asterisk: [Jun 22 03:29:26] — Accepting call from ‘4472977992’ to ‘3446711’ on channel 0/4, span 2
    Jun 22 03:29:26 deneb asterisk: [Jun 22 03:29:26] — Executing
    [3446711@from-pstn:1] NoOp(“DAHDI/i2/8472977992-5f4c”, “Seven digits:
    3446711”) in new stack Jun 22 03:29:26 deneb asterisk: [Jun 22 03:29:26] — Executing
    [3446711@from-pstn:2] GotoIf(“DAHDI/i2/8472977992-5f4c”,
    “0?local-overrides,4143446711,1”) in new stack Jun 22 03:29:26 deneb asterisk: [Jun 22 03:29:26] — Executing
    [3446711@from-pstn:3] Goto(“DAHDI/i2/8472977992-5f4c”, “4143446711,1”)
    in new stack Jun 22 03:29:26 deneb asterisk: [Jun 22 03:29:26] — Goto
    (from-pstn,4143446711,1)
    Jun 22 03:29:26 deneb asterisk: [Jun 22 03:29:26] — Executing
    [4143446711@from-pstn:1] NoOp(“DAHDI/i2/8472977992-5f4c”, “IVR call”) in new stack Jun 22 03:29:26 deneb asterisk: [Jun 22 03:29:26] — Executing
    [4143446711@from-pstn:2] Set(“DAHDI/i2/8472977992-5f4c”,
    “GROUP()=INBOUND”) in new stack Jun 22 03:29:26 deneb asterisk: [Jun 22 03:29:26] — Executing
    [4143446711@from-pstn:3] Answer(“DAHDI/i2/8472977992-5f4c”, “”) in new stack Jun 22 03:29:26 deneb asterisk: [Jun 22 03:29:26] — Executing
    [4143446711@from-pstn:4] Wait(“DAHDI/i2/8472977992-5f4c”, “”) in new stack Jun 22 03:29:26 deneb asterisk: [Jun 22 03:29:26] — Executing
    [4143446711@from-pstn:5] Set(“DAHDI/i2/8472977992-5f4c”, “IVRTrunk=”) in new stack Jun 22 03:29:26 deneb asterisk: [Jun 22 03:29:26] — Executing
    [4143446711@from-pstn:6] GotoIf(“DAHDI/i2/8472977992-5f4c”,
    “1?secondary”) in new stack Jun 22 03:29:26 deneb asterisk: [Jun 22 03:29:26] — Goto
    (from-pstn,4143446711,8)
    Jun 22 03:29:26 deneb asterisk: [Jun 22 03:29:26] — Executing
    [4143446711@from-pstn:8] Set(“DAHDI/i2/8472977992-5f4c”,
    “IVRTrunk=SIP/sipivr:1NA6oZjTg1rjhZN8lArDgzLI7z8V2fxV@desann-voip.mcts.org”)
    in new stack Jun 22 03:29:26 deneb asterisk: [Jun 22 03:29:26] — Executing
    [4143446711@from-pstn:9] GotoIf(“DAHDI/i2/8472977992-5f4c”,
    “0?tertiary”) in new stack Jun 22 03:29:26 deneb asterisk: [Jun 22 03:29:26] — Executing
    [4143446711@from-pstn:10] Dial(“DAHDI/i2/8472977992-5f4c”, ”

    Thomas M. Peters | Systems Administrator | tpeters@mcts.org Desk: 414.343.1720 | Helpdesk: x3400 or helpdesk@mcts.org

    asterisk -rx “logger reload”

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    Telecomunicaciones Abiertas de México S.A. de C.V. Carlos Chávez dCAP #1349
    +52 (55)9116-91161

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  • The line you commented out was writing errors to /var/log/asterisk/messages

    The problem you are having is the logging to /var/log/messages via syslog. It appears that Asterisk is sending verbose logging out to syslog even though logger.conf does not have syslog configured. I am not sure why Asterisk is doing that, and I do not want to play on a production system.

    I added a filter to the /etc/rsyslog.conf file

    :syslogtag, contains, “asterisk” stop

    Syslog is still receiving the messages, but is discarding them.

    Dale

  • Nice to learn a new (to me) feature of rsyslog.

    What does ‘logger show channels’ show?

  • I turned on the messages that he had in the file again, all the logs were in /var/log/asterisk and it does not show anything for syslog.

    asterisk -rx ‘logger show channels’
    Channel Type Status Configuration
    ——- —- —— ———–

  • Sorry, Gmail got me there.

    No, ‘pidof logger’ returns nothing.

    You may have a point about how it is being started however. This is CentOS 7 and Asterisk is being started by systemd. I am not sure I
    get along with systemd yet, so perhaps it is doing something with syslog that I am unaware of.