[squid-users] Squid Log file rotation

[Mike]

"rotate 2" means rotate 2 logs and delete anything older, so this is 
equivalent to 2 days.

With my job, most of our servers, we use rotate 7 or rotate 14 for 1 or 
2 weeks worth. Without drive scrubbing software, there is no easy way to 
get those files back.

Also it may help to put the prerotate entry above "daily" so it runs 
each line in proper order, sometimes the prerotate further down on 
certain systems works more like a "delay rotate".

Mike



On 11/13/2014 12:39 PM, santosh wrote:
> Hello Team ,
>
> I have a doubt with squid log file rotation ,my squid log file rotation is
> configured this way in  /etc/logrotate.d/squid3
>
> /var/log/squid3/*.log {
>          daily
>          compress
>          delaycompress
>          rotate 2
>          missingok
>          nocreate
>          sharedscripts
>          prerotate
>                  test ! -x /usr/sbin/sarg-reports || /usr/sbin/sarg-reports
>          endscript
>          postrotate
>                  test ! -e /var/run/squid3.pid || /usr/sbin/squid3 -k rotate
>          endscript
> }
>
>
> by this i can understand that the the log is rotated daily and once the log
> is rotated Old log files are renamed with numeric extensions. For example,
> when a log  rotates , Squid renames log.6 to log.7, then log.5 to log.6, and
> so on and it compresses too .
>
> earlier i had logs from Oct 25 th to Oct 27th and i didnt use the server for
> long and started using it from 7th november till today ie Nov 13th , i have
> log files only from 7th till today where did the old log files go ? .
>
> As per my understanding they should be archived in the squid log directory
> itself rite ? . how to archive and keep the old log files ?
>
>
>
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