Dockstar Debian/Asterisk Install Instructions - Part 1

[dubanks]

Anyone have any idea how I can disable prints like:

doing dnsmgr_lookup for 'sipgate.com'


If I set verbose to 0 then its gone, but that also disables registration messages which are essential for fail2ban.

Thanks

[PlugPBX Admin]

Well that's a pure Asterisk question.

Can you give fail2ban 'ignore' strings?

Another hack would be to have it tail the file somehow? then pipe that into grep with a -v switch (invert) ...ie

tail -f /var/log/logfile.txt |grep -v "doing dnsmgr_lookup for" > logfileread_by_fail2ban.log

Run that after startup of asterisk, and have fail2ban start after asterisk starts. Yes, its dirty.

Gotcha's, test it during log rotation,it 'should' work.

[dubanks]

thanks for ur suggestion Greg.

Since asterisk is running in USB drive its better to reduce the writes. Given that swap partition is also part of USB drive, I am not sure of a ramdisk solution for saving the log file.

The registration msgs are are not a problem .. few per day. But this dns msg is repeating periodically which can wear out the usb drive. I checked other sources and looks like its a 'feature' in the code, where the verbosity is set to 4 for this stupid message. Unless I recompile .. there seem be no cleaner solution. Hopefully asterisk 1.8 pops out somewhere soon.

[PlugPBX Admin]

Well in my case i have logs in ram disk. I rotate them aggressively and kill off the old sets.
Any logs I want to capture longer term, they go over to a central syslog server I have running on a small NAS.

[jjoshua]

I have been running with this install since it was first posted.  Nice job!

Now, I find that I am having some problems with chan_unistim and I would like to update to a more current version.  What would be the proper way to do this?