asterisk: don't send stdout to syslog by default

[pprindeville]

Maintainer: @jslachta Compile tested: x86_64, generic, HEAD (236c3ea730) Run tested: same, installed & running on production PBX

Description:

Don't duplicate console tracing into /var/log/messages.

[micmac1]

I'd argue the default setting to log to syslog helps new users. You see what's going on in the syslog. And once they're comfy they can turn it off.

[micmac1]

And the commit subject is misleading. You're just changing the default.

[pprindeville]

I'd argue the default setting to log to syslog helps new users. You see what's going on in the syslog. And once they're comfy they can turn it off.

I don't think making new users' lives easier justifies potentially filling up the filesystem.

[micmac1]

I don't think making new users' lives easier justifies potentially filling up the filesystem.

If writing to /var/log/messages fills up a user's file system I'd suggest to configure proper log rotation.

[pprindeville]

I don't think making new users' lives easier justifies potentially filling up the filesystem. If writing to /var/log/messages fills up a user's file system I'd suggest to configure proper log rotation.

And that is supposedly easier for new users to do?

[micmac1]

I don't think making new users' lives easier justifies potentially filling up the filesystem. If writing to /var/log/messages fills up a user's file system I'd suggest to configure proper log rotation.

And that is supposedly easier for new users to do?

Normally users don't have to bother with this. Their distro does it for them. In OpenWrt /var/log/messages is not used by default. I'm guessing you installed some extra syslog daemon.

[pprindeville]

Normally users don't have to bother with this. Their distro does it for them. In OpenWrt /var/log/messages is not used by default. I'm guessing you installed some extra syslog daemon.

All that's needed is to change /etc/config/system to:

config system
        ...
        option log_file '/var/log/messages'
        option log_type 'file'

That will work with the stock BusyBox syslogd.

[micmac1]

All that's needed is to change /etc/config/system to:

config system
       ...
       option log_file '/var/log/messages'
       option log_type 'file'

That will work with the stock BusyBox syslogd.

Anyway, the user has got to roll the file, anything can log to it. It's unrelated to asterisk.

[pprindeville]

@jslachta Care to weigh in?

[jslachta]

@pprindeville, ACK.

[pprindeville]

Thanks!