Greetings!

We have a couple of instances of squid to service our students' Internet access.

Squid version is:
Squid Cache: Version 3.4.10
We use the pre-packaged Red Hat binary from 
http://www1.ngtech.co.il/repo/centos/, as linked to from the squid wiki, as the 
Red Hat version is rather old.

The two instances are effectively identical; they are not peered, we just use 
round-robin DNS. We have a script to sync the configs (barring obvious things 
like tcp_outgoing_address and visible_hostname).

The first system, I'll call T1, functions fine and specifically, the logging 
behaves as expected and like all our other squid instances. We have "log_rotate 
30" to keep 30 days of logs, and "squid -k rotate" at midnight via cron. The 
rotate renumbers all the logs, and squid starts writing in a new access.log. 
This is our main interest, as data from access logs feeds our quotaing and 
other usage reports.

The second system, T2, has the same setup and while it renumbers the logs all 
right, it doesn't close them or start writing in new ones. Thus we see a 
succession of zero-length access.logs, eventually access.log.29 reaches over 3 
gigabytes, and on the next rotation, the whole lot is thrown away and squid 
finally starts writing in a fresh access.log, which gradually works its way up 
to access.log.29 again in the next log_rotate cycle. This is rather 
disadvantageous, as most of the time there will not be 30 days worth of data in 
the logs like on T1.

Other logs such as cache.log and store.log suffer equally the same buildup and 
wipe.

Does anyone have any suggestions? How might we go about debugging this 
situation?


Regards
Gary

Gary Woodman
Enterprise Systems Engineer

ICT Infrastructure Services | ICT Services | University of Southern Queensland
Toowoomba | Queensland | 4350 | Australia
Phone: +61 7 4631 1688 | Fax: +61 7 4631 2798
Email: gary.wood...@usq.edu.au<mailto:gary.wood...@usq.edu.au>
(CRICOS No: 00244B QLD; 02225M NSW; TEQSA PRV12081)



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