Squid log file too large how to deal with?

Squid default 5 days will be compressed once, in the/etc/logrotate.d/squid has settings. If you modify the location of the log,

Please modify the/etc/logrotate.d/squid

/home/log/squid/access.log {

Weekly

Rotate 5

Copytruncate

Compress

Notifempty

Missingok

}

/home/log/squid/cache.log {

Weekly

Rotate 5

Copytruncate

Compress

Notifempty

Missingok

}

/home/log/squid/store.log {

Weekly

Rotate 5

Copytruncate

Compress

Notifempty

Missingok

# This script is asks squid to rotate its logs in its own.

# Restarting Squid is a long process and it are not worth

# doing it just to rotate logs

Postrotate

/usr/sbin/squid-k Rotate

Endscript

}

First modify the Squid.conf

Logfile_rotate 3 (keep several logs)

Modify/etc/crontab

0 0 * * * squid/home/squid/sbin/squid-k rotate

(Compress once a day)

Crontab/etc/crontab (crontab Effective)