B. Cook wrote:
Morning all,
I am running squid 2.6.stable18 from FreeBSD ports. (FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x)
I have two questions..
1) regarding coss.
I have enabled coss as shown in the squid faq and all seems to be
working wonderfully.
I had some questions about the cache_swap_log so I was reading
squid.conf.default in my squid dir (/usr/local/etc/squid again from
FreeBSD ports..)
I found that it said that cache_swap_log was mandatory.. I also saw
That is flat wrong.
cache_swap_log - debugging log useful only if you have filesystem
problems you need to debug.
cache_log - cache operational log. Needed for critical errors and
general problem warnings.
access_log - needed to keep track of squid processed requests.
None of which are mandatory. But the last two are recommended for a
variety of reasons. The administration usefulness being a big one.
<snip>
2) regarding syslog.conf and file rotation
I know I can setup -k rotate from cron and that will rotate squid's
current cache_log, but how would I compress it?
To compress it you would need a wrapper script which runs runs the -k
rotate, then compresses the resulting access_log.0 into a new filename
(usually dated files is a good idea).
I have looked back through the gmane archives of squid-users and I do
not see anyone that answered this question directly.. and even a google
search didn't turn up much of anything useful. Or am I just missing
something basic with a syslog.conf parameter?
thanks in advance and I am sorry if another form of these questions were
asked/answered; I couldn't find anything like them.
again thanks in advance
Amos
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