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

Amos Jeffries wrote:
> 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".

Check for a directory "/etc/logrotate.d/" for a file called "squid".
Modify the pre-rotate script (if it exists) to run SARG.

Alternatively, you should be able to specify which file SARG uses for input.

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>
> Amos

Chris
Received on Wed Aug 13 2008 - 21:31:05 MDT