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From: "Barry Byrne" <barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com>
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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
> 
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