Asterisk not recording all calls

i setup asterisk to record all calls (in and out) yet it’s not recording anything.

How can I check in the logs or files, or on the CLI if a call is actually getting recorded?

hi,

you can see relevant messages in the cli by asterisk -rvvvv.

another place to check is the permission of asterisk to write to /var/spool/asterisk/monitor.

regards,

Here is what is in /var/spool/asterisk/monitor

[root@linux monitor]# ls -al
total 13084
drwxrwxr-x 2 asterisk asterisk 4096 Apr 20 18:27 .
drwxrwxr-x 10 asterisk asterisk 4096 Apr 17 22:06 …
-rw-rw-r-- 1 asterisk asterisk 17480 Apr 20 08:08 20100420-080751-1271765262.182.WAV
-rw-rw-r-- 1 asterisk asterisk 23460 Apr 20 08:13 20100420-081338-1271765612.183.WAV
-rw-rw-r-- 1 asterisk asterisk 17870 Apr 20 08:14 20100420-081428-1271765668.186.WAV
-rw-rw-r-- 1 asterisk asterisk 31878 Apr 20 08:17 20100420-081733-1271765848.188.gsm
-rw-rw-r-- 1 asterisk asterisk 290880 Apr 20 08:24 20100420-082433-1271766268.190.sln
-rw-rw-r-- 1 asterisk asterisk 271680 Apr 20 08:42 20100420-084235-1271767349.192.sln
-rw-rw-r-- 1 asterisk asterisk 112320 Apr 20 08:44 20100420-084354-1271767434.197.sln
-rw-rw-r-- 1 asterisk asterisk 346924 Apr 20 08:48 20100420-084818-1271767693.199.wav
-rw-rw-r-- 1 asterisk asterisk 1045804 Apr 20 08:55 20100420-085401-1271768041.204.wav
-rw-rw-r-- 1 asterisk asterisk 257324 Apr 20 08:56 20100420-085547-1271768142.206.wav
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 381164 Apr 20 09:19 20100420-091853-1271769527.0.wav
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 417004 Apr 20 18:27 g100-20100420-182700-1271802420.6.wav
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 2063404 Apr 20 10:12 OUT100-20100420-101037-1271772637.2.wav
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 8035884 Apr 20 16:55 OUT100-20100420-164658-1271796418.4.wav
[root@linux monitor]#