Re: [squid-users] Squid keeps rotating.

Indunil Jayasooriya wrote:
>> In my squid.conf I have edited the line logfile_rotate 0
>> so this should prevent squid from changing access.log to access.log.1
>
> That's true
>
>> However for some reason it keeps doing that. Squid needs to write to
>> /var/log/squid/access.log since that is a named pipe that has a text
>> processor behind it. Any idea why Squid is still doing this ?
>
> How's /etc/logrotate.d/squid file. this is JUST one .
>
>
> Example of /etc/logrotate.d/squid
>
> /var/log/squid/access.log {
> daily
> rotate 4
> copytruncate
> compress
> notifempty
> missingok
> }
>
> /var/log/squid/cache.log {
> daily
> rotate 4
> copytruncate
> compress
> notifempty
> missingok
> }
>
> /var/log/squid/store.log {
> daily
> rotate 4
> copytruncate
> compress
> notifempty
> missingok
>
> # This script asks squid to rotate its logs on its own.
> # Restarting squid is a long process and it is not worth
> # doing it just to rotate logs
> postrotate
> /usr/sbin/squid -k rotate
> endscript
> }
>
> As you can see, I use the /usr/sbin/squid -k rotate command to let
> squid rotate his logs. You can issue this command everytime you feel
> the need to.

Does anyone have working experience with this?

I'm wondering if the above works and want to find out why. Because last
time I trusted logrotate like this. It renumbered the logs on me. Then
squid -k rotate did it again. Which resulted in twice as many logs and
every second one being empty.

Amos

-- 
Please use Squid 2.7.STABLE1 or 3.0.STABLE6