Logical, but part of the requirements of this project call for me to keep the logfiles uncompressed while we store them. -----Original Message----- From: Guido Marino Lorenzutti [mailto:glorenzutti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 11:32 AM To: Kelly, Jack Cc: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Keeping & archiving access.log You should consider compress the logs... My two cents... this is my logrotate config for squid. /var/log/squid/*.log { daily compress rotate 31 missingok nocreate sharedscripts postrotate test ! -e /var/run/squid.pid || /usr/sbin/squid -k rotate endscript } "Kelly, Jack" <Jack.Kelly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió: > Hi everyone, > Incredibly dumb question, I'm almost embarrassed asking it. > > My access.log only seems to store a day's worth of proxy traffic data. > Do I just need to add a squid3 -k rotate task to my crontab? > > Also, when creating the VM to run Squid, I sized the disk to hold > about a month's worth of log data before it gets pulled off and > archived by our file server. > > So given the fact that I fill up a logfile in about a day and want to > save that much info, I should set logfile_rotate to something like 35, > right? Are there any other config changes I need to make? > > What I'm describing probably sounds *very* unusual, but so are the > requirements I've been given for this project :) > > Thanks! > Jack > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > This message (and any associated files) is the property of S. R. > Weiner and Associates Inc. and W/S Development Associates LLC and is > intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is > addressed and may contain information that is confidential, subject to > copyright or constitutes a trade secret. If you are not the intended > recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, copying or > distribution of this message, or files associated with this message, > is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, > please notify us immediately by calling our corporate office at > 617-232-8900 and deleting this message from your computer. > > Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be secure or > error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, > destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. Therefore, > S. R. Weiner and Associates, Inc. and W/S Development Associates LLC > do not accept responsibility for any errors or omissions that are > present in this message, or any attachment, that have arisen as a > result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required, please > request a hard-copy version of this message. > > Any views or opinions presented in this message are solely those of > the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. >