LinuxQuestions.org - Squid Access Logs date wise

You can use logrotate to do this (are you using it for other log files)? You can create an entry for squid in /etc/logrotate.d/squid and add the following content. This example rotates weekly for 5 weeks. The postrotate entry of /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -k rotate causes squid to close and re-open its logs so no silliness happens with open file handles For this to happen, your squid.conf file needs to have logfile_rotate set to 0:

Code:

/var/log/squid/access.log {

    weekly

    rotate 5

    copytruncate

    compress

    notifempty

    missingok

}

/var/log/squid/cache.log {

    weekly

    rotate 5

    copytruncate

    compress

    notifempty

    missingok

}



/var/log/squid/store.log {

    weekly

    rotate 5

    copytruncate

    compress

    notifempty

    missingok

# This script asks squid to rotate its logs on its own.

# Restarting squid is a long process and it is not worth

# doing it just to rotate logs

    postrotate

      /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -k rotate

    endscript

}