Re: Merging of squid's "log" files.

Every time you add/remove a cache_dir line in squid.conf your while
cache is invalidated. Old cache entries can't be uses since all the
files are renumbered.

This is on the todo, but we have to find a cache file numbering scheme
that is not dependent on the numberof cache_dir entries.

---
Henrik Nordström
Karl Ferguson wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I've added another hard disk to double the size of our cache and found that
> the "log" file doesn't get taken into account - ie:
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 nobody   nogroup    224059 Mar 29 12:07 log
> 
> and
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 nobody   nogroup  12120406 May  9 01:18 log
> 
> I'm noit overly concerned about the first log, but is there anyway way a) I
> can join thr two together or b) delete the files saved by squid on the
> first log (I gather that they haven't been deleted).
> 
> It may well be a good idea in the future to add some code to squid to
> recognise the "stray" log files and perhaps merge them into one.
> 
> Any help appreciated.
> 
> Regards
> 
> --
> Karl Ferguson
> Tower Networking Pty Ltd   Tel: +61-8-9456-0000     karl@tower.net.au
> t/a STAR Online Services   Fax: +61-8-9455-2776     karl@debian.org