[SOLVED] Re: [squid-users] Date time format in access.log

[Dayo Adewunmi <contactdayo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Amos Jeffries wrote:
> Dayo Adewunmi wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > In /var/log/squid/access.log on Ubuntu 8.04, squid 2.6.18-1ubuntu3 
> > the log lines get
> > written to file with the epoch time, instead of the human-readable time.
> > How can I get squid to write to access.log with human-readable time?
>
> You need a custom log format. copy the example squid logformat entry 
> from squid.conf.documented / squid.conf.default and change the 
> %ts.%03tu to %tl
>
>   logformat customfmt %tl ....
>   access_log /var/log/squid/access.log customfmt
>
>
> NP: this will screw up any automatic log processors you use which 
> process squid native log format. To fix that you may need to have two 
> access_log outputs one in the custom and one in squid native format.
>
>
>   logformat customfmt %tl ....
>   access_log /var/log/squid/access-localtime.log customfmt
>   access_log /var/log/squid/access.log squid
>
> Amos
Thanks, Amos. That worked real nicely.

Best regards

Dayo