Canonical postrotate command for asterisk log rotation

Asterisk Asterisk Support
1

Hello,

Debian’s asterisk package brings a /etc/logrotate.d/asterisk file which looks like:
/var/log/asterisk/debug /var/log/asterisk/messages /var/log/asterisk/full /var/log/asterisk/*_log {
weekly
missingok
rotate 4
sharedscripts
postrotate
/usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d asterisk logger-reload > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
endscript
}
My questions are about this postrotate section.
If I’m not mistake, this runs /etc/init.d/asterisk logger-reload.
Looking at /etc/init.d/asterisk on bullseye, I can’t read any logger-reload entry.

My questions are:

  1. Are these postrotate script still required ?
  2. In the ages of systemd and Asterisk 16 or later, which is the recommended postrotate script ?

Best regards

2
  1. I’ve not observed any harmful consequence from using this obsolete “/usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d asterisk logger-reload > /dev/null 2> /dev/null”. How can I explain this ?
3

Hi

Take a look in invoke-rc.d you will discover that systemd is used if installed

Daniel

4

If you don’t do an appropriate postrotate operation, Asterisk will continue to log to the old file (and even do so after it is removed from the directory).

5

What about using:
asterisk -rx ‘logger rotate’
instead of
/usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d asterisk logger-reload > /dev/null 2> /dev/null

6

Do Debian’s asterisk systemd settings include such logger-reload command ?
If negative, has this “/usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d asterisk logger-reload > /dev/null 2> /dev/null” any chance to work successfully ?

8

That would replace the whole of the logrotate configuration, so would not be appropriate as a post process script. If it were used as one you would probably want to suppress the output.