[How-to] Schedule Voicemail Auto-deletion
Tested with:
core: 14.0.28.60
voicemail: 14.0.6.11
Scope: Delete Voicemail older than X days automatically.
Description: A Simple Script to Automatically Remove Voicemail Messages older than X days.
The scripr accepts 0 or 1 optional cli parameters.
Optional Parameter: a comma separated value of all extension's voicemail to be deleted.
If no argument is input, voicemails alder than X days of all the existing extensions will be deleted.
Usage: vm-auto-delete.sh [<ext1,ext2,ext3...>]
Adjustable Parameters:
vm_dir: Voicemail directory root fullpath
days: number of days to go back from today to start deleting messages
Hint: chmod 700 the file and place it under cron.daily directory or call it in your crontab
Improvement/To-Do: .
#!/bin/sh # # Author: dsmaldone # Released under GNU/GPL3 see here: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html # Source: https://github.com/dsmaldone/FreePBX/blob/master/vm-auto-delete.sh # # The scripr accepts 0 or 1 optional cli parameters. # Optional Parameter: a comma separated value of all extension's voicemail to be deleted. # If no argument is input, voicemails of all the existing extensions will be deleted. # Usage: vm-auto-delete.sh [<ext1,ext2,ext3...>] # # Adjustable Parameters # vm_dir: Voicemail directory root fullpath # days: number of days to go back from today to start deleting messages # # Good to know # logger: writes in the system log only in case of success # # Important: If the 'find' program it’s not found - Give Up! narg=$# days=7 vm_dir="/var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/" regexp="^([0-9]*(,)?)+$" find_loc=$(command -v find) ftest=$? if [ $ftest != 0 ]; then echo "Find Command not here! Giving Up!" exit 2 fi if [ $narg -gt 1 ]; then echo "Invalid number of arguments. Script accepts 0 or 1 argument." echo "If no argument is input, voicemails of all the existing extensions will be deleted." echo "To select 1 or more than 1 ext use comma e.g. 100 or 200,300" exit 1 elif [ $narg -eq 0 ]; then logger $(date) - Executed Vociemail Cleanup: All voicemail messages older than $days days have been deleted $find_loc $vm_dir -name "msg*" -mtime +$days -type f -exec rm -rf {} \; else if [[ $1 =~ $regexp ]]; then # Uncomment following line for debug # echo "found a match" for i in $(echo $1 | sed "s/,/ /g") do curvm=$vm_dir/default/$i if [ -d "$curvm" ]; then logger $(date) - Checking Extension $i Voicemail $find_loc $curvm -name "msg*" -mtime +$days -type f -exec rm -rf {} \; # Uncomment following line for debug # echo "checked $i" vmchecked="${vmchecked}$i," fi done logger $(date) - Executed Voicemail Cleanup: All $vmchecked messages older than $days days have been deleted else echo "Invalid argument: allowed is comma separated extensions" exit 3 fi fi exit 0 |