[arm-allstar] Disable Deletion of connectlog

[Michael Webb]

Doug,

I understand and thank you for clarifying.  I'm only been using this for a
couple months now but it's been a blast.  Thank you to you and all of the
contributors for maintaining all of this.  Our club is loving the access.

73
Mike
WG5EEK

On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 7:23 AM "Doug Crompton via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Mike,
>
>  Individuals can do whatever they want. It is our policy to NOT write
> repetitively to the SD card and we would not change that. If a user wants
> to they are certainly able to do so at there own risk. The recommendation
> is to use a USB stick where you can write whatever you want and not
> jeopardize the SD card. It cheap and easy to do and it is also a path to
> backup important parts of the SD card using the supplied file-backup.sh
> script.
>
> *73 Doug, WA3DSP*
> *http://wa3dsp.org <http://wa3dsp.org>*
>
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 10:17 AM "Michael Webb via ARM-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>
> > Doug,
> >
> > Thank you for the quick response, and sorry for my delayed one.  Is
> there a
> > specific reason as to not keep a log locally on the SD card?  There are
> > several other logs that don't get deleted at reboot and with the small
> > amount of traffic on my node, I'm not concerned with file size or too
> many
> > read/writes to the SD card as I make monthly full image backups of the SD
> > card and compress them so I can quickly restore to a new card and be back
> > up and running.
> >
> > Working with a friend who has more programming knowledge than I do, we
> came
> > up with a very simple log that is written to the home directory, and I've
> > created a button in Supermon that opens it but it is not as detailed and
> > clean looking of a log as smlogger is.  I would prefer to not have to
> > connect a USB drive to the Raspberry Pi, is there any other solution to
> the
> > connectlog being deleted upon reboot?
> >
> > Mike
> > WG5EEK
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 12:27 PM "Doug Crompton via ARM-allstar" <
> > arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Mike,
> > >
> > >  This file should not go to the SD card. It currently goes to RAM
> storage
> > > and not the SD card thus it is vulnerable at boot. You need to get and
> > > install a USB stick, any size, to one of the USB slots and then store
> the
> > > data there. The current location could be a symbolic link to the SD
> card.
> > > You could also store the data to another computer but the USB stick is
> > the
> > > best solution. I run them on my hub systems and store log data and
> other
> > > repetitive things there. You could also use a SSD drive with a USB
> > adapter
> > > if desired.
> > >
> > >
> > > *73 Doug*
> > >
> > > *WA3DSP*
> > >
> > > *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
> > >
> > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 3:19 PM "Michael Webb via ARM-allstar" <
> > > arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm wanting to prevent the connectlog located in /var/log/asterisk/
> > from
> > > > being deleted after every asterisk restart or pi reboot.  I'm not
> > > concerned
> > > > with file size as I will archive it as needed.  Thank you for any
> > > > assistance.
> > > >
> > > > Mike
> > > > WG5EEK
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