[squid-users] Squid stopped working after cache.log and access.log rotation

[Antony Stone]

On Wednesday 22 March 2017 at 16:17:32, Chee M Gui wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> We recently installed Squid 3.5.12-1ubuntu7.3 on Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS.  It
> ran fine at first but stopped working after a while.   telnet server 3128
> still works, i.e., opens a blank window, but Squid is just not accepting
> requests.    Then we realized that there is no new access.log file.   The
> access.log file stopped rotated at 6:24AM on 3/17/2017.    It looks like
> Squid wasn't able to create a new access.log?  We could not find any error
> message in syslog or the cache.log.      We haven't rebooted the server
> because we want to know what went wrong.   It isn't the firewall blocking
> Squid because Squid was working fine all the while until recently.  Also
> after it stopped working, we disabled the firewall to see if it would work
> but it still didn't work.
> 
> root at paproxy:/var/log/squid# ls -alt
> total 15536
> drwxr-xr-x 2 proxy proxy      4096 Mar 21 06:25 .
> -rw-r----- 1 proxy proxy        63 Mar 21 06:25 cache.log
> drwxrwxr-x 9 root  syslog     4096 Mar 21 06:25 ..
> -rw-r----- 1 proxy proxy        63 Mar 20 06:25 cache.log.1
> -rw-r----- 1 proxy proxy        83 Mar 19 06:25 cache.log.2.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 proxy proxy  15759111 Mar 17 06:24 access.log.1
> -rw-r----- 1 proxy proxy    117223 Mar 17 05:52 netdb.state
> 
> Any ideas what went wrong?

Any chance you've run out of disk space?


Antony.

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