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Posted by robert k wild
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hi all,

ive done a logrotate for squid logs, it is

Text
cat /etc/logrotate.d/squid
/usr/local/squid/var/logs/*.log {
monthly
rotate 4
compress
delaycompress
missingok
dateext
dateformat -%d%m%Y
su root root
}

now after the rotation i want to run this

"/usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -k reconfigure", this is so it restarts squid after the logs have been rotated

so to do this would i do this

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postrotate
/usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -k reconfigure
endscript

thanks,

rob

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  • what does "sharedscripts" mean in logrotate please

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  •  i understand it now
    cat /etc/logrotate.d/squid
    /usr/local/squid/var/logs/*.log {
    monthly
    rotate 4
    compress
    delaycompress
    missingok
    sharedscripts
    dateext
    dateformat -%d%m%Y
    su root root
    postrotate
    /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -k reconfigure
    endscript
    }
    needed the sharedscripts to run the postrotate just once for all logs
    didnt need the squid -k rotate as already handled by logrotate

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  • Quote from https://linux.die.net/man/8/logrotate :

    The sharedscripts means that the postrotate script will only be run once (after the old logs have been compressed), not once for each log which is rotated. Note that the double quotes around the first filename at the beginning of this section allows logrotate to rotate logs with spaces in the name.

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