man -k crontab Under MacOSX its man 5 crontab which describes the crontab file format. The time and date fields are: field allowed values ----- -------------- minute 0-59 hour 0-23 day of month 1-31 month 1-12 (or names, see below) day of week 0-7 (0 or 7 is Sun, or use names) Set a cron entry for midnight on the first day of the month to rotate. On Sat, Oct 20, 2007, Arun Shrimali wrote: > Dear All /Tek > > I have using fedora core 6 and upgraded squid to 2.6 stable 4. > All my configuration are default. > My log rotate on weekly basis where as I want to rotate on monthly > basis. that's it. > > Arun > > On 10/18/07, Tek Bahadur Limbu <teklimbu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Arun, > > > > > > Arun Shrimali wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > > > > I have configured Squid 2.5 stable 6. > > > My all settings related to log are default, thus log automatic rotate > > > on sunday night. I want this to be rotate on monthly basis i.e. on > > > 30th / 31st night. > > > where should i make the changes > > > > > > How are you rotating your logs every Sunday night currently? Does your > > log rotation include just Squid logs or everything (kernel messages,etc)? > > > > Is Redhat your OS? Basically, you normally use the utility called > > logrotate to rotate your machine's various log files. > > > > You can check the site below for more information on using logrotate to > > rotate Squid and Apache logs: > > > > http://teklimbu.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/managing-your-linuxunix-log-files-using-logrotate/ > > > > > > Or simply, > > > > Add the following entry to rotate your squid logs on the 28th of every > > month at 1 AM in your /etc/crontab > > > > 00 01 28 * * root squid -k rotate > /dev/null 2>&1 > > > > > > Note: you may need to specify the full path of your squid binary. > > > > > > By the way, I personally feel that your Squid 2.5stable6 is way too old! > > I feel that your time has come to upgrade. > > > > Check out the latest stable release below: > > > > http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.6/squid-2.6.STABLE16.tar.gz > > > > > > > > Thanking you... > > > > > > > > > > Arun > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > With best regards and good wishes, > > > > Yours sincerely, > > > > Tek Bahadur Limbu > > > > System Administrator > > > > (TAG/TDG Group) > > Jwl Systems Department > > > > Worldlink Communications Pvt. Ltd. > > > > Jawalakhel, Nepal > > > > http://www.wlink.com.np > > > > http://teklimbu.wordpress.com > > > > > -- > ******************************** > Arun Shrimali > Sr. Manager (IT & QS) > Resonance > +91 9413353335 > www.resonance.ac.in > ******************************* -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $25/pm entry-level bandwidth-capped VPSes available in WA -