Re: File rotation problem

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11.11.15 09:25, Verónica Ovando wrote:
> I am using logrotate with this configuration in /etc/logrotate.d/squid3:
>
> /var/log/squid3/access.log {
>         maxsize 50M
>         daily
>         compress
>         delaycompress
>         rotate 5
>         missingok
>         notifempty
>         create 0640 proxy proxy
>         sharedscripts
>         postrotate
>                 test ! -e /var/run/squid3.pid || test ! -x 
> /usr/sbin/squid3 || /usr/sbin/squid3 -k rotate
>         endscript
> }
>
> /var/log/squid3/cache.log {
>         maxsize 50M
>         daily
>         compress
>         delaycompress
>         rotate 5
>         missingok
>         notifempty
>         create 0640 proxy proxy
>         sharedscripts
>         postrotate
>                 test ! -e /var/run/squid3.pid || test ! -x 
> /usr/sbin/squid3 || /usr/sbin/squid3 -k rotate
>         endscript
> }
>
> In my /etc/crontab.daily logrotate is present.
>
> In my squid.conf file logfile_rotate is set to 0.
>
> My files are growing very quickly, they are more than 50 MB of size 
> (some of them more than 2 GB). I have to execute manually squid3 -k 
> rotate for the log rotation.

apparently logrotate is run once daily and those files are to be checked
daily.  you must use "maxsize" and run logrotate more often than daily to
force rotation when files grow over the limit.

I recommend rotating both access and cache files at the same time, btw.


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