Re: [squid-users] How to rotate logs in Squid

Hi,

On Wednesday 19 July 2006 17:46, Mehmet, Levent (Accenture) wrote:
> Hi
>
> We have just installed Squid and I would like to know how rotate the
> logs files.
>
> Please can some explain on how this can be done automatically without
> admin interference.
>
> We are running Squid Suse 10.1

On SUSE Linux, you do not need to configure a cron job executing "squid -k".
Log file rotation is done automatically using logrotate. The configuration
file for the Squid logfiles is /etc/logrotate.d/squid. It contains
information when and how to rotate the following files:

* /var/log/squid/cache.log
* /var/log/squid/access.log
* /var/log/squid/store.log

By default, they are rotated depending on their size. If you have configured
any other log files (or modified the names), just include them here. A
description of the syntax is available in the man page of logrotate.
logrotate is run via a cron job daily (have a look at
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate)

Regards,

Peter

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Peter Albrecht, Novell Training Services, peter.albrecht@novell.com