Re: [squid-users] squid logging to syslogd

From: Colin Campbell <sgcccdc@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 09:25:52 +1000 (EST)

Hi,

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Deb wrote:

> There doesn't seem to be much documentation on squid's ability (or inability)
> to log to the syslog daemon. I have a long-standing squid proxy server, and
> I wanted to use the -s option to "enable logging to the syslog." According to
> FAQ-6.html (6.2 cache.log), if you start squid with the -s option, "a copy
> of certain messages will go into your syslog facilities."
>
> Well, nothing seems to be going to my syslog. I at least expected whatever
> goes to the cache.log should be going to syslog, cache.log is still being
> used, as well as all other logs.
>
> Ideally, we'd like to point ALL the squid logging to a central log server.
> Is there any way to do that, short of copying logs over to that server?

have you configured syslog to accept squid's messages? As far as I can
see, it uses LOCAL4.

Colin
Received on Tue Mar 05 2002 - 16:25:58 MST

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