[squid-users] How do I rotate access.log?

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

On 12.01.21 15:09, roee klinger wrote:
>Thanks, everyone for making it clear, I will investigate how to do it using
>logrotated.

do you have squid installed from raspbian? squid 4.6 is in debian 10 thus
should be in raspbian too.

it comes with /etc/logrotate.d/squid and if you have logrotate package it
should care about rotating.


>On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 3:26 AM Amos Jeffries <squid3 at treenet.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> On 11/01/21 8:53 am, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
>> > On 10.01.21 17:24, roee klinger wrote:
>> >> I just wanted to give an update in case anyone is interested, I was not
>> >> able to find a solution,
>> >
>> > it was posted here:
>> >
>> http://lists.squid-cache.org/pipermail/squid-users/2020-December/023074.html
>> >
>> >
>> >>>     rotate=N        Specifies the number of log file rotations to
>> >>>                 make when you run 'squid -k rotate'. [...]
>> >>>                 Only supported by the stdio module
>> >>
>> >> You are not using an "stdio" module. You are using a "daemon" module.
>> >
>> > simply said, it could not work in your case,
>> >> Instead, I set "logfile_rotate 0" and wrote my own custom script to
>> >> rotate
>> >> the logs and I am running it as a cron, works just fine.
>> >
>> > isn't this the default in raspbian? Afaik it comes from debian, where
>> this
>> > is the default.


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