Hi I am using Centos 5.1 and I have a weird problem with squid logs rotation. I have the file squid as follow in /etc/logrotate.d: Recently I reduce size parameter. /var/log/squid/access.log { weekly missingok rotate 10 compress create 0660 squid squid missingok size 200M postrotate /usr/sbin/squid -k rotate endscript } /var/log/squid/cache.log { weekly rotate 5 copytruncate compress notifempty missingok } /var/log/squid/store.log { missingok weekly compress size 200M create 0660 root squid rotate 4 # This script asks squid to rotate its logs on its own. # Restarting squid is a long process and it is not worth # doing it just to rotate logs postrotate /usr/sbin/squid -k rotate endscript } The strange thing is that I get the following files: -rw-r----- 1 squid squid 3.4M Jul 8 09:37 access.log -rw-r----- 1 squid squid 116K Jul 8 09:31 access.log.0 -rw-rw---- 1 squid squid 0 Jul 8 09:31 access.log.1 -rw-r----- 1 squid squid 20 Jul 8 09:31 access.log.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 squid squid 28M Jul 8 04:22 access.log.2.gz -rw-r----- 1 squid squid 39M Jul 8 09:31 access.log.3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29M Jul 7 15:58 access.log.3.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 squid squid 252M Jul 8 04:22 access.log.4 -rw-r----- 1 squid squid 1.9K Jul 8 09:31 cache.log -rw-r----- 1 squid squid 0 Jul 8 09:31 cache.log.0 -rw-r----- 1 squid squid 3.1K Jul 8 09:28 cache.log.1 -rw-r----- 1 squid squid 367 Jul 8 09:31 cache.log.1.gz -rw-r----- 1 squid squid 367 Jul 8 04:22 cache.log.2.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12K Jun 11 15:40 squid.out -rw-r----- 1 squid squid 1.1M Jul 8 09:37 store.log -rw-rw---- 1 root squid 0 Jul 8 09:31 store.log.0 -rw-r----- 1 squid squid 2.9M Jul 8 09:31 store.log.1.gz -rw-r----- 1 squid squid 42K Jul 8 09:31 store.log.2 -rw-rw---- 1 root root 323M May 26 04:21 store.log.2.gz -rw-rw---- 1 root root 329M May 16 04:25 store.log.3.gz -rw-rw---- 1 root root 357M May 8 04:23 store.log.4.gz I don't understand why compress old log files but doesn't delete old non-compressed files uncompressed. Any ideas? (I've also modified create parameter for squid be owner of access logs and run by hand logrotate /etc/logrotate.d/squid to see if it repeats the case) Thanks in advance -- -- Open Kairos http://www.openkairos.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio Belkin -