[squid-users] Log rotate

[sampei02 at tiscali.it]

> doesn't centos come with squid package, including logrotate config?

I manually installed Squid package 4.8-1 by yum utility while logrotate 3.8.6-19 was already installed.

> you are running squid -k rotate in postrotate too, so what is your question?
When I installed Squid package, It’s has been created automatically /etc/logrotate.d/squid as I showed in previous mails and where there is written 'squid -k rotate’. 
My question is: if I use logrotate process why in /etc/logrotate.d/squid is recalled ''squid -k rotate’ ?
I thought 'squid -k rotate’ started another file rotation in addition to logrotate.


> On 7 Dec 2020, at 12:07, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar at fantomas.sk> wrote:
> 
> On 07.12.20 10:35, sampei02 at tiscali.it wrote:
>> My OS is Centos 7.
> 
> doesn't centos come with squid package, including logrotate config?
> 
>> But I manage rotation by logrotate, according to your suggestions in
>> /etc/logrotate.d/squid, among postscript and endscript, there is written
>> 'squid -k rotate’ so you don’t invoke squid rotation too ?!?  We have 2
>> rotations?
> 
> you are running squid -k rotate in postrotate too, so what is your question?
> 
> according to squid docs, squid only reopens log files in "rotate" request,
> so logrotate takes care about renaming and compressing files, while squid
> only has to reopen them.
> 
>>> On 07.12.20 09:12, sampei02 at tiscali.it <mailto:sampei02 at tiscali.it> wrote:
>>>> I want to rotate access.log by logrotate system process so I disabled
>>>> rotation in squid.conf, logfile_rotate has been set to zero; by logrotate
>>>> I can compress log files and to name them with date suffix.
>>> 
>>>> But what I have to write among postrotate and endscript ?  What command to
>>>> send to squid to start rotation?
>>> 
>>>> It’s right to write "squid -k rotate" in postrotate section if I wanted to
>>>> manage rotation only by logrotate?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> this is very common on debian-based systems.
>>> 
>>>> This is my /etc/logorotate.d/ file
>>>> 
>>>> var/log/squid/access.log {
>>>>      daily
>>>>      compress
>>>>      rotate 365
>>>>      missingok
>>>>      nocreate
>>>>      sharedscripts
>>>>      postrotate
>>>> 		 test ! -e /var/run/squid.pid || test ! -x /usr/sbin/squid || /usr/sbin/squid -k rotate 2>/dev/null
>>>>      endscript
>>>> }
> 
>>> On 7 Dec 2020, at 10:08, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar at fantomas.sk> wrote:
>>> are you sure you don't run debian? ;-)
>>> I would just like to avoit redirecting stderr to /dev/null
>>> - if something bad happens, you should know it and not flush the info
>>> 
>>> 
>>> /var/log/squid/*.log {
>>>      daily
>>>      compress
>>>      delaycompress
>>>      rotate 31
>>>      missingok
>>>      nocreate
>>>      sharedscripts
>>>      prerotate
>>>              test ! -x /usr/sbin/sarg-reports || /usr/sbin/sarg-reports daily
>>>      endscript
>>>      postrotate
>>>              test ! -e /var/run/squid.pid || test ! -x /usr/sbin/squid || /usr/sbin/squid -k rotate
>>>      endscript
>>> }
> 
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