[Ubuntu] Squid - Log Analysis

[Hightower]

There are cron jobs setup by default for daily/weekly/monthly. Your web server folder will be populated with reports automagically. The only thing you need to keep an eye on is the amount of reports, I had my proxy die from the hard drive being full of sarg reports once

Ok, for some reason I haven't got these Cron jobs and therefore I'm not getting fresh logs.

Can somebody post me their cron jobs for these so I can add them how they should be please.

Thanks ,

[RabbieBurns]

as far as im aware the cron just runs the generate.pl script.

So locate that (on mine its in /etc/webmin/sarg/)

then just create a cron to run that once a day/week whatever ?

[Hightower]

as far as im aware the cron just runs the generate.pl script.

So locate that (on mine its in /etc/webmin/sarg/)

then just create a cron to run that once a day/week whatever ?

Thanks, still a bit unsure so could you send me your cron please?

[RabbieBurns]

as i use webmin it is all configured in there.

but to create a cron, I would just use nano to create something like this and call it like sarg.sh or something:

#/bin/bash
perl /etc/sarg/generate.pl

then chmod +x to make it executable

and then stick it in the /etc/cron.daily folder.

Youll need to change it to whatever the location of the generate.pl is for you

(slocate is a good util i use all the time, if its installed just type "locate generate.pl" and it will show you where it is)

[Geoff]

My mistake, I seem to have this in my crontab instead.

# use /bin/bash to run commands, instead of the default /bin/sh
SHELL=/bin/bash
MAILTO="it_support@carrhill.lancs.sch.uk"

PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin

00 08-18/1 * * * /root/sarg-reports today > /dev/null 2>&1
00 00 * * * /root/sarg-reports daily > /dev/null 2>&1
00 01 * * 1 /root/sarg-reports weekly > /dev/null 2>&1
30 02 1 * * /root/sarg-reports monthly > /dev/null 2>&1

You can get the sarg-reports script here:

$PAGETITLE

[Hightower]

My mistake, I seem to have this in my crontab instead.

# use /bin/bash to run commands, instead of the default /bin/sh
SHELL=/bin/bash
MAILTO="it_support@carrhill.lancs.sch.uk"

PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin

00 08-18/1 * * * /root/sarg-reports today > /dev/null 2>&1
00 00 * * * /root/sarg-reports daily > /dev/null 2>&1
00 01 * * 1 /root/sarg-reports weekly > /dev/null 2>&1
30 02 1 * * /root/sarg-reports monthly > /dev/null 2>&1

You can get the sarg-reports script here:

$PAGETITLE

That's what I was looking for - THANKS!