Re: [squid-users] Squid logging to /var/log/messages

Chris Robertson wrote:
> a bv wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On a squid on Redhat EL , syslog-ng is installed and while also squid
>> is logging on the local itself also its configured to send the logs
>> also to an other syslog-ng server. I dont know if it begin from the
>> begiing of this sys-logng and other configuration , it seems that now
>> also on the squid server send the logs also to the its
>> /var/log/messages file. After commenting the syslog-ng servers related
>> config on squid configuration file it stopped sending to var/log
>> mesages. How and why this var/log/mesaages thing happened any idea?
>>
>
> "rpm -q --changelog squid" will give you the documentation available for
> the changes made to the RPM. Run that command through "less" or "grep"
> to search for any mention of "syslog".
>
> Squid (as distributed from squid-cache.org) exclusively uses it's own
> logging routines.
>

He said it was explicitly configured to log to syslog. Which Squid can do.

Echoing certain information levels (critical etc) to local messages file
is one of the things syslog-ng does unless configured not to AFAIK. I
suspect something changed during an upgrade of either Squid (maye higher
levels?) or syslog-ng (maybe replaced/altered the orginal config).

Amos

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