RotateFSLogs

The logrotate doesn't necessarily work as advertised with FreeSWITCH. The cause is due to the way FS handles the sighup. When received, FS will automatically mv /usr/local/freeswitch/log/freeswitch.log to /usr/local/freeswitch/log/freeswitch.log.`date "+%whatever" In some rare instances, logrotate can cause FS to crash when it tries to write/mv to a file that has already been handled by logrotate.

A better way is to let FreeSWITCH do it's thing, and rotate the logfiles via a cron job. Here is one example (for CentOS change www-data.www-data to apache.apache)

#!/bin/bash
# logrotate replacement script
# put in /etc/cron.daily
# don't forget to make it executable
# you might consider changing /usr/local/freeswitch/conf/autoload_configs/logfile.conf.xml
#  <param name="rollover" value="0"/>

#number of days of logs to keep
NUMBERDAYS=30
FSPATH="/usr/local/freeswitch"

$FSPATH/bin/fs_cli -x "fsctl send_sighup" |grep '+OK' >/tmp/rotateFSlogs
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
       #-cmin 2 could bite us (leave some files uncompressed, eg 11M auto-rotate). Maybe -1440 is better?
       find $FSPATH/log/ -name "freeswitch.log.*" -cmin -2 -exec gzip {} \;
       find $FSPATH/log/ -name "freeswitch.log.*.gz" -mtime +$NUMBERDAYS -exec /bin/rm {} \;
       chown www-data.www-data $FSPATH/log/freeswitch.log
       chmod 660 $FSPATH/log/freeswitch.log
       logger FreeSWITCH Logs rotated
       /bin/rm /tmp/rotateFSlogs
else
       logger FreeSWITCH Log Rotation Script FAILED
       mail -s '$HOST FS Log Rotate Error' root < /tmp/rotateFSlogs
       /bin/rm /tmp/rotateFSlogs
fi