Re: [squid-users] Log Rotation of Access.log & Cache.log

Thompson, Scott (WA) wrote:
> Hi all
> A quick easy one I am sure
> I have setup SARG to grab the logs each day; SARG is set to run in
> cron.daily every morning at 06:25
> It would appear that the cache.log and access.log files are backed up to
> cache.log.1 and access.log.1 at 06:17 each morning, so by the time the
> cron.daily runs SARG the logs are empty
> There is nothing in the squid.conf that I am aware of that would cause
> the logs to rotate and backup
> Where is this coming from? Or would I just be better off changing the
> cron.daily to run earlier than the last date on the .log.1 file or
> changing cron.hourly to run later?
> The cron.hourly is set to run at 17 past each hour but this folder is
> empty and runs whatever is in the crontab!

There may be a system process rotating outside squid. Either by rotating
them itself (along with squid.conf "logfile_rotate 0") or by calling
"squid -k rotate".

Amos

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