Wet Mogwai, on 09/04/2007 08:30 PM [GMT+500], wrote : > My squid machine stopped rotating logs recently. The last time rotate worked > was the day before I copied the access.log to my laptop for the first time. > The only changes made to the configuration that day were the good.hosts , > bad.hosts, good.ip, and bad.ip files. After making the new files for the > ACLs, I ran squid -k reload. > > I tried setting the logfile_rotate option in squid.conf in case it was > ignoring the default. I have checked ownership and permissions. Everything > seems right. It is still writing to the log, so it is getting to be quite > large. I could write my own rotate script, but I'd rather get the existing > function working. > > This has been working properly for at least a year and a half. What could > have caused squid to quit rotating? > > I am running Squid Cache: Version 2.5.STABLE14 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p8 > (SQUID_KERNEL). Logrotate is in the ports tree, but it is not installed. > I am not sure why log rotation suddenly stopped working, however i thinks its time to upgrade to new code, fbsd 6.1 have squid 2.6.14 in there ports tree better to upgrade it. Do not forget to read changlog from 2.5 to 2.6 :) Regards,
