How-to: 改變Asterisk的Log檔位置

1. How to change the directory of log file of asterisk?

--> change asterisk.conf:

[directories]
astetcdir => /etc/asterisk
astspooldir => /var/spool/asterisk
astvarlibdir => /var/lib/asterisk
astdatadir => /var/lib/asterisk
astlogdir => /var/log/asterisk ; the directory of Asterisk log files, just assign it to the directory we want
astagidir => /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin
astrundir => /var/run
astmoddir => /usr/lib/asterisk/modules

2. If you want to change the name of log file:

--> change logger.conf:

[logfiles] section

debug => debug
console => notice,warning,error
messages => notice,warning,error ;At present the name of log file is messages. if we want to replace the filesname, just remove this line and replace with a line with different filename, the format is: filename => [log levels] . legal log levels includes: notice, warning, error, debug, verbose .
full => notice,warning,error,verbose
syslog.local0 => notice,warning,error

Level	Description
verbose	General 'chatter' about what is happening on the system. Verbosity levels greater than 3 display dialplan commands as they are executed. This generates lots of log information
debug	Debug messages, normally only used by programmers to extract extended information
notice	Non urgent alert messages
warning	Warning alert messages, something happened that might be bad. Some tell you how badthe warning is
error	Error messages, something bad happened – These should be rare.

3. If you want to rotate the log:

You can rotate logs by running "logger rotate" on the CLI.
You can do this from cron by putting the following in a cron job:
/usr/sbin/asterisk -r -x 'logger rotate'


References:
1. The Little Asterisk Handbook
http://www.automated.it/asterisk/lah-3-6-05_5.html