Hi Antony, All I know is I need to keep a record of up to 3 months, worth of logs, due to gdpr, how would you say I go about this
Thanks, Rob On Thu, 16 Jun 2022, 09:49 Antony Stone, <antony.st...@squid.open.source.it> wrote: > On Thursday 16 June 2022 at 09:27:32, robert k Wild wrote: > > > Thanks Eliezer > > > > I have centos 7 and I want it to rotate every 3 months as we need to keep > > logs for every 3 months. > > Do you really mean you "need to keep logs for every 3 months"? > > Or do you mean that you need to keep "the most recent 3 months' logs"? > > I would recommend that you rotate every month, and keep 4 months' logs. > > Firstly, there's no point in letting indivdual log files grow too large, > and > secondly, you then know that at all times you have the current month's > logs, > plus the previous 3 months, until the fourth one gets deleted by logrotate. > > > Antony. > > > On Thu, 16 Jun 2022, 08:11 , <ngtech1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Rob, > > > > > > It will be different how you implement and use logrotate manually or > with > > > the logrotate tools. > > > > > > What OS are you using? > > > > > > Eliezer > > > > > > *From:* squid-users <squid-users-boun...@lists.squid-cache.org> *On > > > Behalf Of *robert k Wild > > > *Sent:* Wednesday, 15 June 2022 20:19 > > > *To:* Squid Users <squid-users@lists.squid-cache.org> > > > *Subject:* [squid-users] Logrotate question > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > ATM to clear the logs, I do this in crontab, every 3 months > > > > > > 0 0 1 */3 * echo "" > /usr/local/squid/var/logs/access.log and do the > > > same for cache log > > > > > > It works but I want to really use log rotate ie > > > > > > 0 0 1 */3 * /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -k rotate > > > > > > I hear log rotate keeps 10 files by default so does that mean I will > have > > > 10 access logs etc and also will it keep the file the same ie won't > > > change the size or compress it to save space > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Rob > > > _______________________________________________ > > > squid-users mailing list > > > squid-users@lists.squid-cache.org > > > http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users > > -- > The next sentence is untrue. > The previous sentence is also not true. > > Please reply to the > list; > please *don't* CC > me. > _______________________________________________ > squid-users mailing list > squid-users@lists.squid-cache.org > http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users >
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