Re: [squid-users] Clear Access Log

Running 'squid -k rotate' from crontab should do the trick right?
Remember to check if the tag logfile_rotate is set correctly.

kt

Simon Allenby wrote:
>
> John,
>
> Fairly simple: just create a little script like the one below. You might
> want to put some error checking in before you cat /dev/null into the file.
> As far as the ownership and mod settings, the file is owned by whoever the
> effective user is in your squid.conf file, and the file is mod 644. The
> script below doesn't care, it keeps whatever it had before. Save your
> script, make it executable, and put it in root's crontab. (crontab -e)
>
> ---start script ---
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> LOGDIR=/var/log/squid
>
> cd $LOGDIR
> cp access.log access1.log
> cat /dev/null >access.log
> exit 0
>
> ---end---
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Simon
>
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Received on Tue Jun 12 2001 - 10:45:18 MDT