Re: [squid-users] log_db_daemon - Advice ?

On 6/04/2013 9:01 p.m., Roland RoLaNd wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have squid 2.7 stable9 running in transparent mode.
> i'd like to store all logs into a mysql database.
>
> i've created the requested squid_log(access_log) with it's privileges as mentioned.
> and added the following to my squid.conf:
> access_log daemon://///SomePassword squid
> according to what i've googled thus far, i need to add a log daemon directive that points to logfile-daemon_mysql.pl
> though cannot find that script under these locations:
>
> /etc/squid/*
> /usr/local/*
> nor under this ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/squid/squid/squid-2.7.STABLE9.tar.gz

It is not part of Squid-2. The DB daemon was only added in squid-3.3,
and the usage difffers a bit.

That said, you can build the squid-3.3 sources and run the daemon helper
it builds under 2.7 if you want to.

> advice on how to proceed, would be greatly appreciated
>
> PS: i don't have a problem in upgrading to squid3 as this is a lab environment before switching to production.

It really is well past time to attempt that switch.

Amos
Received on Sat Apr 06 2013 - 11:32:52 MDT