Okay, after doing a bunch more reading on call recording, I find that on-demand recording of outgoing calls is problematic because of the way Asterisk names the files. The problem occurs when visiting the User Portal/Call Monitor, where outgoing calls recorded with *1 may not appear:
http://www.freepbx.org/trac/ticket/5272
I have a bunch of WAV files in /var/spool/asterisk/monitor (because I was testing and had no idea they were being created).
Can I “rm *” in this directory on the server to get a clean start? There isn’t anything I need to keep.
Or if I do that, will I screw-up the entries in the Call Monitor where the recording icon does appear because I was sometimes using the “record always” option (which does work properly).
I’m not sure how the database that links to these files is handled, I don’t want to screw-up that database. I’m kinda hoping that if I just delete all the files, the Call Monitor will just show that there are no recordings for any of the calls and no inconsistencies in the underlying database will result.