Re: stopping and starting squid

From: Justin Willoughby <justin@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 13:00:08 -0400

On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 08:43:42PM +0800, Joel Taqueban wrote:
> I tried to run the script though as root from /etc/rc.d/init.d but still the squid
> process didn't stop. Anywhere else I need to look at? What I'm currently doing
> at the moment is whenever I do make changes to the squid.conf file I still have to
> reboot my linux box before the new entry is recognized. Is there a better way of
> stopping the squid process from command line (after it was brought up by the reboot
> process) and start it again?
>
> Again, thanks and awaiting for reply
>

If all you want is to have Squid re-read its configuration file just do a

/usr/local/squid/bin/squid -k reconfigure

This is all I do.

- justin

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