Would like Squid Daily Logs to be pruned

[ranj]

Apoloiges I should have put this on my previous post which is to do with Squid.

 

This question isn't really a problem its more of how we could do it

 

We have noticed that in var/log/squid that we have all the logs for access to the internet by all users in school.

 

This is very handy but at the moment we find it stores 7 days worth of usage in 1 log file.

 

Is there a way we can create a log file for each day rather than 1 log for 7 days and also ask it to delete old log files in the process?

 

Thanks

[kmount]

I noted you mentioned Gentoo on another post so this may be relevant.

 

logrotate can be used in this instance.

 

Check the bottom of this link for info on how to give it a go.

 

Probably not for the feint hearted unless you've got a good backup/linux techy.

[Geoff]

Here's my logrotate config for squid (stock Debian, but tweaked to keep 4 weeks worth).

 

#
#       Logrotate fragment for squid.
#
/var/log/squid/*.log {
       daily
       compress
       delaycompress
       rotate 28
       missingok
       create 644 proxy proxy
       sharedscripts
       prerotate
               test ! -x /usr/sbin/sarg-maint || /usr/sbin/sarg-maint
       endscript
       postrotate
               test ! -e /var/run/squid.pid || /usr/sbin/squid -k rotate
       endscript
}