Re: Logrotate question

<ngtech1ltd@xxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 16 Jun 2022 12:39:09 +0300

Hey Rob,

First there is a difference between rotation and deletion.
If it’s not a loaded system then 3 month is ok but… in most use cases it’s better to rotate every day but to delete after 3 month.
You have the choice to compress the files or to leave them in plain text but it’s only a choice of resources preservation.

Let me see, I will look at my CentOS 7 system and will try to find the right way to do it.

Eliezer

From: robert k Wild <robertkwild@xxxxxxxxx> 
Sent: Thursday, 16 June 2022 11:28
To: Eliezer Croitoru <ngtech1ltd@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Squid Users <squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re:  Logrotate question

Thanks Eliezer

I have centos 7 and I want it to rotate every 3 months as we need to keep logs for every 3 months.

Thanks,
Rob

On Thu, 16 Jun 2022, 08:11 , <ngtech1ltd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rob,

It will be different how you implement and use logrotate manually or with the logrotate tools.
What OS are you using?

Eliezer

From: squid-users <squid-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of robert k Wild
Sent: Wednesday, 15 June 2022 20:19
To: Squid Users <squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:  Logrotate question

Hi all,

ATM to clear the logs, I do this in crontab, every 3 months

0 0 1 */3 * echo "" > /usr/local/squid/var/logs/access.log and do the same for cache log

It works but I want to really use log rotate ie

0 0 1 */3 * /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -k rotate

I hear log rotate keeps 10 files by default so does that mean I will have 10 access logs etc and also will it keep the file the same ie won't change the size or compress it to save space

Thanks,
Rob
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