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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"