Re: [squid-users] Apparently, no rotation on .logs

Eric Geater 02/11/05 wrote:
> Howdy, everyone. Back in October 2003, we set up a Squid 2.4(?) proxy,
> and thought it was quite nice. It turns out, however, that we never set
> up a rule for logging and log rotation. Our "store.log" file is
> gargantuan, and darn near filling up the HD space we have left.

Good lord, you were lucky. I'd fill up my disk in about 10 days.

> I want to gamble, and say that we don't need the information in either
> access.log or store.log. If I were to close out squid this afternoon,
> and I were to delete those files, would I cause any significant problems
> to the system?

If you stopped squid, no, no danger. When it started up again it would
simply recreate them.

> I don't think I have enough time (or swap space) to do the "kill -USR1"
> solution, and nothing happened when I entered "squid -k rotate", so I'd
> just like to kill the files altogether and start over. Will this hurt?

It's odd that nothing happened when you asked it to rotate. Do you have
the logfile_rotate parameter set to something? Did you perform a squid
-k reconfigure to tell squid to pick it up?

What you should see is a slew of lines in cache.log that go something like:

2005/03/01 00:01:09| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting...
2005/03/01 00:01:10| 65536 entries written so far.
2005/03/01 00:01:11| 131072 entries written so far.
[...]
2005/03/01 00:01:15| 1900544 entries written so far.
2005/03/01 00:01:15| 1966080 entries written so far.
2005/03/01 00:01:15| Finished. Wrote 1974087 entries.
2005/03/01 00:01:15| Took 5.2 seconds (382552.3 entries/sec).
2005/03/01 00:01:15| logfileRotate: /var/squid/store.log
2005/03/01 00:01:15| logfileRotate: /var/squid/access.log

... and afterwards the logs are rotated. Once this works you can add a
crontab entry and forget about for the next two years :)

> Thanks
>
> Eric Geater
> egeater at mscoinc dot com
>
>
Received on Tue Mar 01 2005 - 09:18:06 MST