[squid-users] Logrotate question

[Antony Stone]

On Thursday 16 June 2022 at 09:27:32, robert k Wild wrote:

> Thanks Eliezer
> 
> I have centos 7 and I want it to rotate every 3 months as we need to keep
> logs for every 3 months.

Do you really mean you "need to keep logs for every 3 months"?

Or do you mean that you need to keep "the most recent 3 months' logs"?

I would recommend that you rotate every month, and keep 4 months' logs.

Firstly, there's no point in letting indivdual log files grow too large, and 
secondly, you then know that at all times you have the current month's logs, 
plus the previous 3 months, until the fourth one gets deleted by logrotate.


Antony.

> On Thu, 16 Jun 2022, 08:11 , <ngtech1ltd at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Rob,
> > 
> > It will be different how you implement and use logrotate manually or with
> > the logrotate tools.
> > 
> > What OS are you using?
> > 
> > Eliezer
> > 
> > *From:* squid-users <squid-users-bounces at lists.squid-cache.org> *On
> > Behalf Of *robert k Wild
> > *Sent:* Wednesday, 15 June 2022 20:19
> > *To:* Squid Users <squid-users at lists.squid-cache.org>
> > *Subject:* [squid-users] Logrotate question
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > ATM to clear the logs, I do this in crontab, every 3 months
> > 
> > 0 0 1 */3 * echo "" > /usr/local/squid/var/logs/access.log and do the
> > same for cache log
> > 
> > It works but I want to really use log rotate ie
> > 
> > 0 0 1 */3 * /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -k rotate
> > 
> > I hear log rotate keeps 10 files by default so does that mean I will have
> > 10 access logs etc and also will it keep the file the same ie won't
> > change the size or compress it to save space
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Rob
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