Re: problems rotating logs

From: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:12:13 +0300

did you set the log rotation settings in squid.conf file?

Gagliardi Sebastián wrote:

> I run
> kill -USR1 `cat /usr/local/squid/logs/squid.pid`
> as root and as the user id that squid is running but I don´t work.
> Note that in the file cache.log are the following lines although the rotate
> don´t really work.
>
> 1999/07/20 11:34:53| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting...
> 1999/07/20 11:34:56| 65536 entries written so far.
> 1999/07/20 11:34:56| Finished. Wrote 121536 entries.
> 1999/07/20 11:34:56| Took 3 seconds (40512.0 entries/sec).
> 1999/07/20 11:34:56| accessLogRotate: Rotating
>
> Do you suggest another solution?
>
> Bye
>
> Sebastian
> sg@infoplus.com.ar
>
> > -----Mensaje original-----
> > De: Alvin Lim [SMTP:alvinlim@starnet.gov.sg]
> > Enviado el: Monday, July 19, 1999 10:15 PM
> > Para: squid-users@ircache.net
> > Asunto: Re: problems rotating logs
> >
> > I found squid -k rotate not to work too well.
> > Alex is right in saying that the user you're running as does not have
> > permissions to send a signal to the squid process.
> >
> > So , what you can do is
> >
> > kill -USR1 `cat /usr/local/squid/logs/squid.pid`
> >
> > . Run the above as root, or the user id which squid is running as.
> >
> >
> > Alex Rousskov wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, [iso-8859-1] Gagliardi Sebastián wrote:
> > >
> > > > When I start Linux manually, using RunCache or squid -sY the
> > > > rotation works fine (using squid -k rotate), but when I configure
> > > > squid to start automaticaly when Linux boot (using a script file
> > > > in the directory init.d) the squid works OK but the rotate don't work.
> > >
> > > Probably the user id that Squid starts with is different in these two
> > > cases. Consequently, Squid cannot write its .pid file, "squid -kr"
> > cannot
> > > read .pid file, and/or "squid -kr" does not have permissions to send a
> > > signal to the master process.
> > >
> > > Alex.
Received on Tue Jul 20 1999 - 09:55:13 MDT

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