Re: Squid Logs - HELP

[Florian Streck <streck () papafloh de>]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 12:59:22PM -0500, George Lantz wrote:
> I hope someone can help me. I am using the default installation of squid
> on an old Red Hat 8.0 box. I have to find really old log files from
> about 2-3 years ago. It is VERY important that I find these.

Has the machine been backuped at that time? It might be a chance.

> Unfortunately for me, they are on log rotation and I think they may have
> been overwritten. Is there any to find really old log entries? I hope
> there is some way to find these. I know I am SOL. But if any list can
> think of something it is this one. Any help or suggestions would be
> greatly, greatly appreciated.

There might be a chance that the files are still there, but it's
minimal.

> Also, I did uncompress these logs and viewed them in a text editor.
> Maybe there is a way to find the files that way?

The recent files? Just have a look when the oldest one starts. That's as
far as you can go back.

If there's no old backuptapes or a old harddisk from that machine it's
unlikely that you'll find something.

Florian

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