On 12-12-04 01:05 PM, Earl Ruby wrote:
Paul:
Four reasons not to use logrotate:
1. logrotate does not provide log rotation every 15 minutes.
Sure it does, you can invoke it using crontab, like you do for your script.
2. logrotate will not create unique file names unless you use a date
format in the name (file names with a .nnn extension get reused over
time), but since logrotate only supports YYYYMMDD, not hours, minutes,
or seconds, once again you're limited to daily roll-overs.
(asterisk-cdr-rollover generates file names using the format
cdr-YYYYMMDDHHMISS.csv.)
Not so, logroate actually supports strftime %s, so you get the number of
seconds since the Epoch. Easily converted into any datetime format you
wish.
3. My customers need to be able to feed CDR files into a telecom
billing, monitoring, fraud-detecting system I work on called WebCDR.com,
which works best if it gets a new CDR file every fifteen minutes.
postrotate/endscript should work for this.
4. If there are no calls after 15 minutes, with asterisk-cdr-rollover I
get a zero byte file, which can trigger a "no calls" alarm, alerting me
that something is wrong with the Asterisk switch. (The switch setup I'm
working will always have some calls within a 15 minute block if
everything is working correctly, although people with less-busy switches
can always configure a larger alarm window to suit their situations.) If
you're running a high-traffic switch, this can be a life-saver.
No native support, but you could invoke logic using postrotate/endscript
from above.
If you want a copy, go to
https://github.com/earlruby/asterisk-cdr-rollover and click the ZIP
button to download the script and cron job. It's free.
Understood. If it works for you that is great, I was mostly trying to
understand why you choose to rewrite logrotate :)
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