[squid-users] Logrotate question

[ngtech1ltd at gmail.com]

Hey Rob,
 
First there is a difference between rotation and deletion.
If it’s not a loaded system then 3 month is ok but… in most use cases it’s better to rotate every day but to delete after 3 month.
You have the choice to compress the files or to leave them in plain text but it’s only a choice of resources preservation.
 
Let me see, I will look at my CentOS 7 system and will try to find the right way to do it.
 
Eliezer
 
From: robert k Wild <robertkwild at gmail.com> 
Sent: Thursday, 16 June 2022 11:28
To: Eliezer Croitoru <ngtech1ltd at gmail.com>
Cc: Squid Users <squid-users at lists.squid-cache.org>
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Logrotate question
 
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.
 
Thanks,
Rob
 
On Thu, 16 Jun 2022, 08:11 , <ngtech1ltd at gmail.com <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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