remove all voicemail for all extensions

[womble1]

how can I easily remove all voicemail for all extensions ?

 

[ou812]

Did you look in Voicemail Admin, I dont want to try it and wipe out all of our messages but the fly over says it's all the messages and there is a delete button

Gary

 

[womble1]

no sure i'm with you.
looking at voicemail admin in freepbx 2.8 I can't see this…., I can see voicemail admin, just no pref for this…
Thanks…

 

[womble1]

I the system has thousands of messages that window shows something like 12… I have tried to delete using it but no joy, it does not seem to work.

 

[TheMole]

do it via a shell.

either log into the box as user asterisk

(or as root `su asterisk`)

(PLEASE DON'T DO THIS AS ROOT)

go to /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail

issue the find command with option to remove all wav files:

find . -name "*.wav" -print | xargs rm

you'll need to repeat the command with uppercase *.WAV as files are stored both ways (i don't know why that's the case)

THIS WILL BLOW OUT YOUR RECORDINGS (OUT GOING ANNOUNCEMENTS, BUSY, UNAVAIL, ETC).

back those up first.

 

[womble1]

Thanks, Ok so I can do it but it wipes all recorded messages… can we exclude these ?
I have to say, really we should have a solution for this, it seems odd there isn't one.
Also after they are wiped I suppose the recorded item will still show in the GUI but there will be no file ?

 

[LesD]

Looking at my system, using File Manager in Webmin, I can see that every msgnnnn.wav file has a matching .txt file that also needs to be removed.

Depending on the number of extensions you have, manual deletion may be an option.

All relevant file names seem to take the form msgnnnn with suffixes wav, WAV or txt. Couldn't find be limited to that? (my Linux skills are very close to zero so ...)

 

[womble1]

Am I alone in thinking this needs attention and we should be able to delete en mass ?
Possible module for this ?
Thanks.

 

[TheMole]

just add "msg" at the front of the *

so:

       find . -name "msg*.wav" -print | xargs rm

that will prevent you from blowing out the recordings for each mailbox.

 

[womble1]

Thanks what about the .TXT files can all those go ? and what would the command look like ?

 

[TheMole]

safe to remove the text files, too.

you can execute the following to do it in one command:

find . -name "msg*.*" -print | xargs rm

just remember, don't do this as root, and get to /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail first. if you execute this anywhere else, you might have problems.

so, here's the complete sequence:

su asterisk

cd /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail

find . -name "msg*.*" -print | xargs rm

if you login as user asterisk, then don't 'su asterisk' only execute that if you're logging in as root.

if you want to see what files are going to be deleted first, just execute this first:

find . -name "msg*.*" -print | more

 

[womble1]

Thanks,
Did that but at…

cd /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail

I have these

default device

and

find . -name "msg*.*" -print | more

appears to do nothing.
Thanks.

 

[TheMole]

what version of piaf and asterisk are you running?

try this and post the results:

cd /

find . -name "msg*.*" -print

 

[TheMole]

and post results for this

cd /

find . -name "*.wav" -print

 

[womble1]

Asterisk 1.4.21.2
pbxinaflash 1.2.9


output

./var/spool/asterisk/monitor/g301-20110526-164503-1306424691.255.wav

 

[TheMole]

and your voice mails are still all there?

out of the box, your voice mail should be store here:

/var/spool/asterisk/voicemail

you seem to only have one recording, which is a recorded call.

did you get any output when you did

cd /
find . -name "msg*.*" -print

could one of your previous attempts earlier in the thread have already deleted all of the voice mails?

also, remember, unix is sensitive to case, so ensure you try "MSG*.* and "msg*.*"

 

[womble1]

disk still shows 72% full

root@pbx:/ $ find . -name "msg*.*" -print
./usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/BSD/Resource/msgrcv.al
./usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/BSD/Resource/msgsnd.al
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_24.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_03.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_01.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_38.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_19.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_11.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_18.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_30.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_15.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_36.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_14.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_35.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_12.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_02.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_08.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_33.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_25.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_20.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_44.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_12a.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_43.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_40.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_27.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_10.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_28.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_31.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_05.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_32.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_17.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_34.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_42.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_29.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_09.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_39.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_21.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_13.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_23.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_37.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_41.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_22.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_16.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_07.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_06.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_26.txt
./usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/data/msg_04.txt
./usr/share/man/man2/msgop.2.gz
./usr/share/man/man2/msgrcv.2.gz
./usr/share/man/man2/msgctl.2.gz
./usr/share/man/man2/msgsnd.2.gz
./usr/share/man/man2/msgget.2.gz
./usr/share/man/man0p/msg.h.0p.gz
./usr/share/man/man1/msgexec.1.gz
./usr/share/man/man1/msgfilter.1.gz
./usr/share/man/man1/msguniq.1.gz
./usr/share/man/man1/msgfmt.1.gz
./usr/share/man/man1/msginit.1.gz
./usr/share/man/man1/msgcmp.1.gz
./usr/share/man/man1/msgconv.1.gz
./usr/share/man/man1/msgcat.1.gz
./usr/share/man/man1/msgmerge.1.gz
./usr/share/man/man1/msgcomm.1.gz
./usr/share/man/man1/msgunfmt.1.gz
./usr/share/man/man1/msgattrib.1.gz
./usr/share/man/man1/msgen.1.gz
./usr/share/man/man1/msggrep.1.gz
./usr/share/man/man3p/msgctl.3p.gz
./usr/share/man/man3p/msgget.3p.gz
./usr/share/man/man3p/msgsnd.3p.gz
./usr/share/man/man3p/msgrcv.3p.gz
./usr/include/sys/msg.h
./usr/include/asm/msgbuf.h
./usr/include/linux/msg.h
./usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-92.1.6.el5-i686/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/msgbox.c
./usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-92.1.6.el5-i686/include/asm-i386/msgbuf.h
./usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-92.1.6.el5-i686/include/linux/msg.h
./usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-92.1.6.el5-i686/include/linux/sunrpc/msg_prot.h
./usr/src/asterisk/formats/msgsm.h

 

[womble1]

actually it's call recordings that seem to taking all the space up, how do I delete all of those ?

 

[TheMole]

call recordings are stored here:

/var/spool/asterisk/monitor

to list all the recordings to verify:

ls -lash /var/spool/asterisk/monitor

to delete them:

su asterisk
cd /var/spool/asterisk/monitor
rm ./*.wav

that should do it.

 

[womble1]

Thanks now I have this…

asterisk@pbx:/var/spool/asterisk/monitor $ rm ./*.wav
bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long