I just installed Asterisk 1.4.11 on a Debian 4.0r1
Now the Monitor application wil NOT murge the recorded files anymore. 
In my previous SuSE and Centos system I didnāt have this problem.
sox and soxmix are installed !
[macro-monitor]
exten => s,1,Monitor(wav,/var/spool/asterisk/monitor/${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},%Y%m%d}/${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},%H}.${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},%M}to${ARG1},m)
Who can advise ? 
[quote=āhenkoegemaā]I just installed Asterisk 1.4.11 on a Debian 4.0r1
Now the Monitor application wil NOT murge the recorded files anymore.
In my previous SuSE and Centos system I didnāt have this problem.
sox and soxmix are installed !
[macro-monitor]
exten => s,1,Monitor(wav,/var/spool/asterisk/monitor/${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},%Y%m%d}/${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},%H}.${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},%M}to${ARG1},m)
Who can advise ? [/quote]
Iāve tried to change Monitor to MixMonitor:
exten => s,1,MixMonitor(/var/spool/asterisk/monitor/${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},%Y%m%d}/${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},%H}.${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},%M}to${ARG1}.wav)
but that gives me:
[Sep 17 15:54:29] WARNING[3461]: file.c:976 ast_writefile: Unable to open file /var/spool/asterisk/monitor/20070917/15.54_to_00234847442xx6.wav: No such file or directory
[Sep 17 15:54:29] ERROR[3461]: app_mixmonitor.c:194 mixmonitor_thread: Cannot open /var/spool/asterisk/monitor/20070917/15.54_to_00234847442xx.wav
Why canāt MixMonitor create or open the file 
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[quote]
Why canāt MixMonitor create or open the file ?[/quote]
It looks like that MixMonitor canāt create the directory of the date
/var/spool/asterisk/monitor/20070917
Once the directory exist, it writes the file (murged) ok.
How can I let MixMonitor automatically create that directory (just like it happens with Monitor) 
You can try use the System() command to create the directory and then save the file with MixMonitor, check here for examples about System():
voip-info.org/wiki/index.php ā¦ cmd+System .
Regards.
Marco Bruni
[quote=āmbruniā]You can try use the System() command to create the directory and then save the file with MixMonitor, check here for examples about System():
voip-info.org/wiki/index.php ā¦ cmd+System .
Regards.
Marco Bruni[/quote]
Yes Marco, I have been thinking about the same. 
It could be that the application MixMonitor canāt create directories 
But I really want to find out why
exten => s,1,Monitor(/var/spool/asterisk/monitor/${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},%Y%m%d)}/${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},%H)}.${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},%M)}to${ARG1}.wav)
is NOT working correctly :
Am I doing somehing wrong? Is there something wrong with the OS (Debian 4.0r1) or is it a bug ?
I donāt think itās Debian problem or a bug, I just looked in the source code of the app_mixmonitor and seems to me it doesnāt try to create a non existant directory so I think if you need it you have to create it with System().
Regards.
Marco Bruni
[quote=āmbruniā]I donāt think itās Debian problem or a bug, I just looked in the source code of the app_mixmonitor and seems to me it doesnāt try to create a non existant directory so I think if you need it you have to create it with System().
Regards.
Marco Bruni[/quote]
Well Marco I agree with that.
Butā¦ Monitor creates a directory!!.
It only refuses to merge the two recorded files. (and it should do that with the m option.
I have been using this application (successfully) for a very long time.
Hi, i had a similar issue with the following āErrorā message:
ERROR[18014]: app_mixmonitor.c:288 mixmonitor_thread: Cannot open /var/spool/asterisk/monitor/l/<phone-number>-1478529366.105898-all.wav
and i was getting it on Asterisk 1.4.44 every single second. What i did is to create the directory manually which mix_monitor couldnāt open (the ālā (itās a lowercase L) and give it the proper permissions). When i checked again the asterisk CLI the message disappeared! I donāt know if this is a proper solutionā¦ but it worked for me.
That thread is 9 years old. 1.4 has been end of life for several years.