[KLUG Members] squid proxy log rotate error

[Jason Edward Durrett]

>> I think that's it.  "su -" tries to create an environment (path, shell,
>> etc) that the user would have if they logged in.  User nobody can't log
>> in, so that could be the problem.  See if it works taking out the first
>> dash.  
>>     
>
> I think you mean edit the squid.logrotate script so the line reads: 
>
> su nobody -c "/usr/bin/killall -USR1 squid >/dev/null 2>&1"
>
> I tried that and ran it as root (instead of waiting for the cron job)
> and it still reported back: 
>
> This account is currently not available.
>
>   
How about editing the script so it is just:

/usr/bin/killall -USR1 squid >/dev/null 2>&1



On my system logs are rotated by the /etc/cron.daily/logrotate script.  
The configuration for each of the logs is in /etc/logrotate.d/ - For 
squid it is /etc/logrotate.d/squid   and that file contains:


#       Logrotate fragment for squid.
#
/var/log/squid/*.log {
        daily
        compress
        delaycompress
        rotate 2
        missingok
        nocreate
        sharedscripts
        prerotate
                test ! -x /usr/sbin/sarg-maint || /usr/sbin/sarg-maint
        endscript
        postrotate
                test ! -e /var/run/squid.pid || /usr/sbin/squid -k rotate
        endscript
}



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Jason Edward Durrett
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