Re: problems with squid -k signals

Had the same problem. I had a wrong path to squid.pid in my squid.conf.
Which meant: squid started but didn't create a squid.pid. All signals
sent to squid (rotate, shutdown, etc,) work via the squid.pid. No pid,
nothing happens.

Scott Hess wrote:
>
> OK, I've seen this same notion go by a couple times (using squid with
> RunCache, versus without). At some point or another, I saw reference to the
> notion that Squid could monitor and restart itself (which makes some sense,
> as there appears to be two Squid-related processes on my system, excluding
> dnsservers and kin). Yet the documentation seems to indicate using
> RunCache.
>
> What's the story? Does Squid need RunCache these days? Or can it handle
> such things entirely internally?
>
> Later,
> scott
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@hem.passagen.se>
> To: Emili Badia <ebc@nil.fut.es>
> Cc: <squid-users@ircache.net>
> Sent: Sunday, July 11, 1999 10:41 AM
> Subject: Re: problems with squid -k signals
>
> > Emili Badia wrote:
> >
> > > with th squid -k shutdown command before. I run Version 2.2.STABLE2
> > > After that, squid started ok but I'm unable to send to it any signal
> like
> > > squid -k shutdown or squid -k rotate. I only can stop squid killing th
> > > processes.
> >
> > Sounds like you have started squid with the RunCache script, or are
> > having serious problems.
> >
> > --
> > Henrik Nordstrom
> > Spare time Squid hacker
> >

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