Deleting Recordings from a Specific Date in Vicidial

How does one delete recordings from a specific date? It's a good thing that vicidial recordings are named by date. In my case, the recordings we use are in MP3 format.

For example here, if I wanted to delete all MP3's from March 19, 2016, I just need to use the command below:

rm -f /var/spool/asterisk/monitorDONE/MP3/20160319*.mp3

It would be helpful in freeing up space if the original .WAV files are also deleted since they eat up a lot of space. This isn't a date-specific command since we only need the MP3's.

rm -f /var/spool/asterisk/monitorDONE/ORIG/*.wav 

To free up more space, check here:
http://simplevicidial.blogspot.com/2016/04/no-mysqlsock-because-root-partition-is.html 

*Another thing I learned: Sometimes, you just need to reboot to free up space.

8 Sockets Detached Only in Asterisk, Can't call Softphone

After my hard drive was full again from recordings, I deleted the extra recordings and then rebooted. After this, the users told me that their X-Lite (our softphone) wasn't being called into the conference anymore.

For those unfamiliar, every time the agent logs into the website of Vicidial, the softphone will ring and will join a conference. Vicidial will dial numbers and when it gets an answered call, it will connect this phone call to the conference.

Upon checking using the "screen -ls" command, there are only 8 sockets detached (vs the usual 9). I found that "astsend" was missing. I assume this is the socket that "sends" the calls to the softphones.

I found 2 suggestions on how to fix it:

1. Recompile Asterisk - I don't know how to do this exactly, but might be worth looking into for those who know how to do this.

2. Perform a Mysql Repair - Thankfully, this was the solution that worked for me! Turns out, when deleting unwanted recordings, it also damaged the mysql database.

mysqlcheck --auto-repair asterisk
sudo reboot

After performing the mysql repair and rebooting, Asterisk now calls my X-lite again.