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[How-to] Schedule Voicemail Auto-deletion
[How-to] Schedule Voicemail Auto-deletion
- Kelli Higdon
Owned by Kelli Higdon
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 |