Log file rotation
As time passes, the size of the log files increases rapidly and starts occupying more and more disk space. To overcome this problem of the accumulation of logs over time, we generally keep the logs for the previous one or two weeks. To remove old log messages and retain the recent ones, Squid has a built-in feature of log file rotation, which can move older log messages to separate files. Moreover, Squid stores the incremental copy of the storage index in a file swap.state, which is also pruned down during log rotation.
To rotate logs, we have to use the squid command as follows:
$ squid -k rotate
This command will rotate logs depending on the value specified with the directive logfile_rotate in the configuration file. The default ...
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