[resolved] Duplicate log entries

General Help
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Dear folks,

one last question for tonight.
Running FreePBX 2.11 with Asterisk 11.2.

Essentially, every line in our full log file is duplicated.

For example:

[2013-03-22 03:35:01] Asterisk 11.2.1 built by root @ jenkins-el6-64.schmoozecom.net on a x86_64 running Linux on 2013-03-21 00:50:11 UTC
[2013-03-22 03:35:01] Asterisk 11.2.1 built by root @ jenkins-el6-64.schmoozecom.net on a x86_64 running Linux on 2013-03-21 00:50:11 UTC
[2013-03-22 03:35:01] VERBOSE[26003] config.c: == Parsing ‘/etc/asterisk/logger.conf’: Found
[2013-03-22 03:35:01] VERBOSE[26003] config.c: == Parsing ‘/etc/asterisk/logger.conf’: Found
[2013-03-22 03:35:01] VERBOSE[26003] config.c: == Parsing ‘/etc/asterisk/logger_general_additional.conf’: Found
[2013-03-22 03:35:01] VERBOSE[26003] config.c: == Parsing ‘/etc/asterisk/logger_general_additional.conf’: Found
[2013-03-22 03:35:01] VERBOSE[26003] config.c: == Parsing ‘/etc/asterisk/logger_general_custom.conf’: Found
[2013-03-22 03:35:01] VERBOSE[26003] config.c: == Parsing ‘/etc/asterisk/logger_general_custom.conf’: Found
[2013-03-22 03:35:01] VERBOSE[26003] config.c: == Parsing ‘/etc/asterisk/logger_logfiles_additional.conf’: Found
[2013-03-22 03:35:01] VERBOSE[26003] config.c: == Parsing ‘/etc/asterisk/logger_logfiles_additional.conf’: Found
[2013-03-22 03:35:01] VERBOSE[26003] config.c: == Parsing ‘/etc/asterisk/logger_logfiles_custom.conf’: Found
[2013-03-22 03:35:01] VERBOSE[26003] config.c: == Parsing ‘/etc/asterisk/logger_logfiles_custom.conf’: Found
[2013-03-22 03:35:01] VERBOSE[26003] logger.c: Asterisk Queue Logger restarted
[2013-03-22 03:35:01] VERBOSE[26003] logger.c: Asterisk Queue Logger restarted
[2013-03-22 03:35:01] VERBOSE[26003] asterisk.c: – Remote UNIX connection disconnected
[2013-03-22 03:35:01] VERBOSE[26003] asterisk.c: – Remote UNIX connection disconnected

This results in very large log files (up to half a gig a day). Also, it makes call logs more difficult to read. Surely there must be a way to configure the logger not to do that. But does anyone know where?

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This may be because you updated core and also installed the asterisk logfile package. If you check the logger*.conf files you will see that it lists everything twice.

You should be able to delete the logger conf files and let the gui recreate them.

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Hmm very interesting.
I found out that logger_logfiles_additional.conf and logger_logfiles_custom.conf contained the exact same entries.
After emptying the custom file and reloading the logger, it stopped behaving that way and logs only singe lines now.
This is a relatively new install, and for sure we didn’t edit the custom file at any time.
Was there a time where FreePBX would write to the custom file?

Also, out logger.conf has a [general] and (iirc) [logger] or [logfiles] section that both include the same files. I tried commenting out one section, but then nothing gets logged.

Either way, thank you for your pointer about the logger* files, that was indeed the problem for some reason!

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I think when u install the asterisk log file it migrate the old setting to custom. Which is either a feature or a bug…not sure.

5

Ahh thanks that makes sense. I was wondering where that config in custom came from.
Thanks for clearing that up!

It could be useful in certain circumstances. I wouldn’t call it a bug, but rather unexpected behavior.