Log files should be rotated

[Johan van Dijk]

Binary package hint: squid-deb-proxy

At the moment, the log files for squid-deb-proxy are not rotated.
As a result, the log files in /var/log/squid-deb-proxy will grow unnecessary large (40 MB+ on my small home network). I don't think it's needed to keep logfiles for months.

I copied and adapted /etc/logrotate.d/squid to rotate the logs for squid-deb-proxy:

/var/log/squid-deb-proxy/*.log {
        daily
        compress
        delaycompress
        rotate 2
        missingok
        nocreate
        sharedscripts
        prerotate
                test ! -x /usr/sbin/sarg-reports || /usr/sbin/sarg-reports
        endscript
        postrotate
                test ! -e /var/run/squid-deb-proxy.pid || /usr/sbin/squid -f /etc/squid-deb-proxy/squid-deb-proxy.conf -k rotate
        endscript
}

This seems to work as it should on my system.
I'm not sure about the /usr/sbin/sarg-reports part, but that file does not exist on my system so that part doesn't do anything.

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
Release: 10.04

apt-cache policy squid-deb-proxy
squid-deb-proxy:
  Installed: 0.3.1.0.1
  Candidate: 0.3.1.0.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.3.1.0.1 0
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.3.1 0
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages

[Andrew Simpson (andrew-simpson)]

Confirmed.

I am using a bit more modern log rotate file on a Debian system as follows (The reference to Sarge is gone).

#
# Logrotate fragment for squid-deb-proxy.
#
/var/log/squid-deb-proxy/*.log {
 daily
 compress
 delaycompress
 rotate 2
 missingok
 nocreate
 sharedscripts
 postrotate
  test ! -e /var/run/squid-deb-proxy.pid || /usr/sbin/squid -f /etc/squid-deb-proxy/squid-deb-proxy.conf -k rotate
 endscript
}

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package squid-deb-proxy - 0.4

---------------
squid-deb-proxy (0.4) natty; urgency=low

  * mirror-dstdomain.acl:
    - add ddebs.ubuntu.com to default mirrors
  * apt-avahi-discover:
    - use avahi-resolve to workaround the issue that avahi-browse
      sometimes hands out ipv6 even when asked for ipv4 only,
      many thanks to Andrew Simpson (LP: #686265)
  * contrib/squid-deb-proxy.init:
    - add sysv init script, thanks to Andrew Simpson
  * debian/squid-deb-proxy.upstart:
    - write avahi services file on post-start and kill it again
      on pre-stop (LP: #695937)
  * debian/squid-deb-proxy.squid-deb-proxy-avahi.upstart:
    - removed, this is part of squid-deb-proxy.upstart now
  * Makefile:
    - fix permission of 30autoproxy (LP: #697955)
  * debian/squid-deb-proxy.logrotate:
    - add logrotate file (LP: #718923), thanks to
      Johan van Dijk and Andrew Simpson
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:53:11 +0100