Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 14:20:04 +0100 From: "Barry Byrne" <barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com> To: "Jason Stewart" <jstewart@rtl.org>, "Free BSD Questions list" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Squid and newsyslog Message-ID: <NCBBIAMNAKDKFJIIGNPKKEELNMAA.barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <3F82BA3F.3040201@rtl.org>
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Jason: I don't use newsyslog to rotate the squid logs but do the following: Specify the number of logfiles to keep in the squid.conf file: logfile_rotate 8 Tell squid to do rotate the logs with the command: /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -k rotate You could do this in a short cron job. - Barry > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Jason Stewart > Sent: 07 October 2003 14:06 > To: Free BSD Questions list > Subject: Squid and newsyslog > > > I'm having trouble rotating my squid access.log and cache.log with > newsyslog. > > Here is my entry in newsyslog.conf: > > /usr/local/squid/logs/access.log nobody.nogroup 644 7 * 168 Z > /usr/local/squid/logs/squid.pid > (ditto, but for cache.log also) > > I have the pid file, the mode, user, and group. The new log is created > just fine with the correct ownership and permissions and the old one is > trimmed, but squid does not actually restart. The new logfile does not > get appended to. > > For now, I have the newsyslog entry commented out and I'm rotating the > log by hand, but sometime I'd like to get it working automatically. > > For some reason, newsyslog and squid aren't working well together. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Jason Stewart > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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