Building Telephony Systems with OpenSIPS - Second Edition

Working with the log files

The initialization log can be seen at syslog (/var/log/syslog). You can redirect the log to a specific file such as opensips.log by changing the configuration of the rsyslog daemon. By default, OpenSIPS logs to the LOCAL_0 facility as defined in the opensips.cfg script:

log_facility=LOG_LOCAL0

To redirect log files to opensips.log, edit the /etc/rsyslog.conf file and add the following line to the rules section:

Local0.*                      -/var/log/opensips.log

Create the file and restart the daemon using the following command:

touch /var/log/opensips.log
/etc/init.d/rsyslog restart

After restarting OpenSIPS, you should see the following log. Logs are very important for this training. Whenever you have a problem, you should check the log files. ...