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

[Amos Jeffries]

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.


Amos