Re: [squid-users] Log Rotate

> Matt wrote:
>>
>> I am running squid3-3.1.0.15-1 on CentOS.  I have this for log rotate:
>>
>
> NP: 3.1 beta are all now unsupported. Please upgrade to 3.1.1 or later.

Any idea where I can get a 3.1.1 rpm for EL5?

Matt

>> /etc/logrotate.d/squid
>>
>> /var/log/squid/access.log /var/log/squid/cache.log
>> /var/log/squid/store.log {
>>    daily
>>    missingok
>>    nocompress
>>    noolddir
>>    sharedscripts
>>    postrotate
>>        DATE=`/bin/date --date=yesterday +%y%m%d`
>>        LOGDIR="/var/log/squid"
>>        /usr/sbin/squid -k rotate 2>/dev/null || true
>
> Going by the package name, "squid3" probably means the binary is also named
> "squid3" instead of "squid".
>  That means your squid may not be receiving the rotate signal. Run it
> without that "2>/dev/null ||true" and see if any errors are happening.
>
>>        sleep 10
>>        for LOGFILE in ${LOGDIR}/*.log; do
>>          [ -f ${LOGFILE}.1 ] && mv ${LOGFILE}.1 ${LOGFILE}-${DATE}
>
> Part of the problem is this:
>   loop only considers file with extension .log
>     file is only dated if it has extension .1  !!!
>
>>          [ -f ${LOGFILE}-${DATE} ] && /bin/gzip ${LOGFILE}-${DATE}
>>        done
>>        /usr/bin/find ${LOGDIR}/ -type f -name "*.log-*.gz" -mtime +30
>> -exec rm -f {} \;
>
> What does this do? erase the file just now created and zipped?
>
>>    endscript
>> }
>>
>> It never seems to ratate the logs though.  Any idea why?
>
>
>
> As a side note;
>  The new logdaemon could fairly easily gain the ability to write those dated
> files directly based on the individual log timestamp.
>  If you or anyone else using this type of script wants to delve into the
> helper code and make it so I'm happy to mentor the effort. Just don't have
> time to do it myself yet.
>
> Amos
> --
> Please be using
>  Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE9 or 3.1.1
>
Received on Sat Apr 17 2010 - 15:28:24 MDT