[squid-users] squid writes to /var/log/messages

[sampei02 at tiscali.it]

> I can confirm that squid will write to /var/log/messages if syslog logging is
> enabled AND syslog is configured to write to /var/log/messages (this is the
> default behaviour on some Linux distributions, such as Debian, but not Ubuntu).



My distro is Centos7 and rsyslog is enabled and It’s  configured to write to /var/log/messages; it’s the default behaviour.
But how can I avoid Squid writes into this file? I chose the Squid default log files which are contained into /var/log/squid/ folder.



> On 21 Dec 2020, at 11:31, Ambrose Li <ambrose.li at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 11:01:07PM +1300, Amos Jeffries wrote:
>> On 21/12/20 9:55 pm, sampei02 at tiscali.it wrote:
>>> Ok, I noted these 2 squid processes:
>>> 
>>> root		/usr/sbin/squid -sYC
>>> squid       (squid-1) --kid squid-1 -sYC
>>> 
>>> -s means "Enable logging to syslog”
>>> 
>>> This option ‘-s’ could explain writing to messages ?
>> 
>> Squid does not write to /var/log/messages. On startup before Squid reads any
>> configuration about whether cache.log or syslog is to be used it logs to
>> stderr.
>> 
>> That stderr channel is handled by whatever init system or shell is starting
>> Squid. /var/log/messages is the init system log file.
> 
> Actually no, /var/log/messages is not an init system log file; on some Linux
> distros it is a default log location for syslog.
> 
> I can confirm that squid will write to /var/log/messages if syslog logging is
> enabled AND syslog is configured to write to /var/log/messages (this is the
> default behaviour on some Linux distributions, such as Debian, but not Ubuntu).
> 
> 
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