[squid-users] Logrotate question

robert k Wild robertkwild at gmail.com
Thu Jun 16 10:26:37 UTC 2022


Cool, so I will rotate daily and delete after 91 days, thanks guys

On Thu, 16 Jun 2022, 11:14 Matus UHLAR - fantomas, <uhlar at fantomas.sk>
wrote:

> On 16.06.22 10:54, robert k Wild wrote:
> >Basically I want to keep logs for 3 months then rotate so it overwrites
> >them with another 3 months, if that makes sense
>
> in fact, it does not.
>
> I guess you are supposed to keep 3 months of logs, which mean, you always
> need to have 3 months of logs available.
>
> Each day, you can delete log files over 3 months old.
>
> If you rotated lof once in 3 months, you would have single file with 3
> months of logs in it, and could remove it 3 months after rotating, when
> first logs would be 6 months old.
>
> As we already told you, rotate daily and remove old logs after 92 days.
> and use logrotate config.
>
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