[squid-users] Logrotate question

[robert k Wild]

Hi Eliezer,

Basically I want to keep logs for 3 months then rotate so it overwrites
them with another 3 months, if that makes sense

On Thu, 16 Jun 2022, 10:39 , <ngtech1ltd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Rob,
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> First there is a difference between rotation and deletion.
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> 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.
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> You have the choice to compress the files or to leave them in plain text
> but it’s only a choice of resources preservation.
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> Let me see, I will look at my CentOS 7 system and will try to find the
> right way to do it.
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>
> Eliezer
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> *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
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> Thanks Eliezer
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> I have centos 7 and I want it to rotate every 3 months as we need to keep
> logs for every 3 months.
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> Thanks,
>
> Rob
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> On Thu, 16 Jun 2022, 08:11 , <ngtech1ltd at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Rob,
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> It will be different how you implement and use logrotate manually or with
> the logrotate tools.
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> What OS are you using?
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>
> Eliezer
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>
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> *From:* squid-users <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>
> *Subject:* [squid-users] Logrotate question
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> Hi all,
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> ATM to clear the logs, I do this in crontab, every 3 months
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> 0 0 1 */3 * echo "" > /usr/local/squid/var/logs/access.log and do the same
> for cache log
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> It works but I want to really use log rotate ie
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> 0 0 1 */3 * /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -k rotate
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> 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
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> Thanks,
>
> Rob
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