Hello,

I am going to reply on Arne’s behalf...

> On 9 Aug 2024, at 16:25, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Arne,
> 
> I saw that my patch for commenting out the access.log in the rootfile had been reverted.
> 
> https://git.ipfire.org/?p=ipfire-2.x.git;a=commit;h=97067db7862450bb40d4e9188627d6b5585bf931
> 
> I don't understand the meaning of
> 
> "the file was created to be shipped with permissions
> so it is needed in the rootfile."

The file is created with other than default ownership than root or maybe other permissions than 644.

There is a follow-up commit which should exclude it from being overwritten:

  https://git.ipfire.org/?p=ipfire-2.x.git;a=commitdiff;h=6f83ae4c959045c866c08cc326f36ff645952ae4

Can you confirm that this works, too?

> 
> If it has to stay how do we ensure that users don't lose maybe up to a weeks worth of the access.log file if an update is done on the day before access.log would be rotated to access.log.1 .gz
> 
> Although this has always been the case, it doesn't seem right to overwrite the existing access.log file if squid is updated or have I misunderstood something?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Adolf.
>