[SUMMARY] rotating squid logs using logadm

From: Brett Lymn <blymn_at_baesystems.com.au>
Date: Thu Sep 16 2004 - 22:25:31 EDT
Last night I posted the message quoted below.  I received the flood of
out of office messages along with a very helpful response from Bill R.
Williams.  Though Bill did not directly give me the answer he pointed out
how the linux logrotate worked with squid, from that I managed to brew
up the right logadm syntax:

squid -C 60 -a '/opt/local/squid/sbin/squid -k rotate; sleep 2; rm -f /logs/squi
d/*.log.0' -c -p 1d -t '$file.%Y%m%d' -z 0 '/logs/squid/{access,cache,store}.log

The logs get copied and truncated.  After that I tell squid to rotate the logs
and remove the redundant copy of the logs.  There is a small window of
log info we don't capture but I am not too concerned about that.

Thanks be to Bill.

Liberal application of the clue-stick goes to:

tclever@pironet-ndh.com
Wallace.MA@rbos.com   
sherman.butler@gettyimages.com
Andy.Scutt@jobpartners.com
John.Hilger@veritas.com
KJenkinson@ironmountain.co.uk
Dietmar.Swoboda@HVBInfo.com

Come on people, even outlook's lame mail filtering capabilities could have
saved this useless notification.

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 10:04:19PM +0930, Brett Lymn wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I brave the veritable deluge of out of office notifications (waves 
> cluestick on high at said persons) to seek help with logadm.
> 
> I have a squid proxy server and in the past I have run a script to rotate
> my squid logs around.  I wanted to use logadm in solaris 9 to do this since
> it looks to be a neater solution than having lots of little log rotate
> scripts.  The problem is that I cannot get the syntax right, when you
> ask squid to rotate it's logs it produces a file of the form access.log.0
> which is the file I want to rename, and compress.  The problem is that
> if I tell logadm to look for access.log.0 it says the file does not exist
> and bails out, the -N option suppresses the error message but no logs are
> rotated.  I am half tempted to a) log a bug report with Sun saying the
> presence of the log file should be checked _after_ the pre-rotate script
> is run or b) resort to scripting my own log rotation again.  Before I do
> either of these I thought I would throw myself upon the collective wisdom
> (and auto-responders...grrr) of this list.  This is the logadm entry
> for my squid rotation:
> 
> squid -C 60 -b '/opt/local/squid/sbin/squid -k rotate; sleep 240' -p 1d -t $file.%Y%m%d -z 0 '/logs/squid/{access,cache,store}.log.0'
> 
> I don't really want to shutdown squid every night just to rotate the logs.
> 
> Suggestions most welcome.
> 

-- 
Brett Lymn
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