I recommend setting log_rotate to 0 and having a perl or shell script crontabbed to do the actual rotation. For example... # Shell script for rotating squid logfiles # - moves access.log and renames it access-$year$month$day$hour.log # - run this every hour currentdate=$(date +%y%m%d%H) logfile="access-$currentdate.log" mv /usr/squid/log/access.log /var/log_storage/$logfile /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -k rotate -----Original Message----- From: Jakob Curdes [mailto:jc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 12:11 PM To: Michael Coburn Cc: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Rotating Logs >I issue the following command > >/usr/sbin/squid -k rotate > >and nothing seems to happen. I have read in the docs that it should >change the log files but nothing seems to happen in /var/log/squid > >Am I missing something? > > More interesting than the compile options are the settings in the config file squid.conf. According to the compilation options you should find it in /etc, but beware : there might be several versions of you system. Make sure you are looking at the right one. Look at the configuration variable squid_rotate. Here is the excerpt of the explanation in the conf file : # TAG: logfile_rotate # Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you # type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate # with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will # disable the rotation, but the logfiles are still closed and # re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles # yourself just before sending the rotate signal. I suppose this is set to 0 so you see no rotation. Yours, Jakob Curdes
