Thanks to it’s reliability, I find I go long periods of time without needing to do anything on FreeSWITCH.

But every now and then I log into a system and I can’t find the path I’m looking for, where do the recordings get stored?

The CDR storage location?

Here’s a simple trick to show the directory paths for a FreeSWITCH instance:

fs_cli -x 'global_getvar'| grep _dir

This will output all the paths you could possibly want:

nick@fs-131:~$ fs_cli -x 'global_getvar'| grep _dir
base_dir=/usr
recordings_dir=/var/lib/freeswitch/recordings
sounds_dir=/usr/share/freeswitch/sounds
conf_dir=/etc/freeswitch
log_dir=/var/log/freeswitch
run_dir=/var/run/freeswitch
db_dir=/var/lib/freeswitch/db
mod_dir=/usr/lib/freeswitch/mod
htdocs_dir=/usr/share/freeswitch/htdocs
script_dir=/usr/share/freeswitch/scripts
temp_dir=/tmp
grammar_dir=/usr/share/freeswitch/grammar
fonts_dir=/usr/share/freeswitch/fonts
images_dir=/var/lib/freeswitch/images
certs_dir=/etc/freeswitch/tls
storage_dir=/var/lib/freeswitch/storage
cache_dir=/var/cache/freeswitch
data_dir=/usr/share/freeswitch
localstate_dir=/var/lib/freeswitch

Saved me a lot of poking around, hopefully it’ll make others lives easier too.