[squid-users] File rotation problem

Antony Stone Antony.Stone at squid.open.source.it
Wed Nov 11 12:42:22 UTC 2015


On Wednesday 11 November 2015 at 13:25:56, VerĂ³nica Ovando wrote:

> Hi. I need to set up correctly my logfiles rotation.

I think http://serverfault.com/questions/391538/logrotate-daily-and-size might 
help you.

> I am using logrotate with this configuration in /etc/logrotate.d/squid3:
> 
> /var/log/squid3/access.log {
>           maxsize 50M
>           daily
>           compress
>           delaycompress
>           rotate 5
>           missingok
>           notifempty
>           create 0640 proxy proxy
>           sharedscripts
>           postrotate
>                   test ! -e /var/run/squid3.pid || test ! -x
> /usr/sbin/squid3 || /usr/sbin/squid3 -k rotate
>           endscript
>   }
> 
>   /var/log/squid3/cache.log {
>           maxsize 50M
>           daily
>           compress
>           delaycompress
>           rotate 5
>           missingok
>           notifempty
>           create 0640 proxy proxy
>           sharedscripts
>           postrotate
>                   test ! -e /var/run/squid3.pid || test ! -x
> /usr/sbin/squid3 || /usr/sbin/squid3 -k rotate
>           endscript
>   }
> 
> In my /etc/crontab.daily logrotate is present.
> 
> In my squid.conf file logfile_rotate is set to 0.
> 
> My files are growing very quickly, they are more than 50 MB of size
> (some of them more than 2 GB). I have to execute manually squid3 -k
> rotate for the log rotation.

Antony.

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