[squid-users] Logrotate question

[robert k Wild]

Ok sorry as normally 3 months is 90 days and I just added a 1 to it, but I
get what you mean if months have 31 I should really do 93 as I want to give
it extra room incase

On Thu, 16 Jun 2022, 11:41 Antony Stone, <Antony.Stone at squid.open.source.it>
wrote:

> On Thursday 16 June 2022 at 11:26:37, robert k Wild wrote:
>
> > Cool, so I will rotate daily and delete after 91 days, thanks guys
>
> Why did you change the recommended 92 days into 91?
>
> Consider June, July and August:
>
>         June has 30 days
>         July has 31 days
>         August has 31 days
>
> So, on September 1st, June 1st is 92 days ago, and you can delete the logs
> for
> May 31st, which are older than 92 days.
>
> If you deleted older than 91 days, you would be deleting June 1st on
> September
> 1st, and one day this might be significant to someone.
>
>
> Antony.
>
> > On Thu, 16 Jun 2022, 11:14 Matus UHLAR - fantomas 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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