Re: [squid-users] Re-reding /etc/hosts file with -k

You guys are right, -k reconfigure re-reads the hosts file. Thanks for
the information. I was complicating things. At least I learned something
about Squid's source code.

Once again tks.

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Andre D. Correa, CISSP
andre.correa (at) pobox.com
http://andre.hiperlinks.com.br
Sao Paulo / SP / Brazil
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Andre D. Correa wrote:
>
> Hi Squid-users, my question is more to the dev list but I'm not a Squid
> developer so its better not disturb then.
>
> In my setup I need to be able to send a signal to Squid to force it to
> read /etc/hosts again. I need it because I have a PPPoE concentrator and
> the hosts file is updated each time a new user connects or disconnects.
>
> I couldn't find a way to enable this behavior so I decided to mess with
> the code a little and this is where I need a helping hand.
>
> Looking arround I found the function idnsInit() that looks promissing. I
> added something like this to src/main.c
>
> static void mainResetDNS(void);
>
> ...
>
> static void
> mainResetDNS(void)
> {
> idnsInit();
> }
>
> ...
>
> At mainInitialize()
>
> ...
> squid_signal(SIGRTMIN, mainResetDNS, SA_NODEFER);
> ...
>
> and to get a command line option to send the signal I made something
> like this:
>
> ...
> case 'k':
> if ((int) strlen(optarg) < 1)
> usage();
> if (!strncmp(optarg, "dns", strlen(optarg)))
> opt_send_signal = SIGRTMIN;
> else if (!strncmp(optarg, "reconfigure", strlen(optarg)))
> opt_send_signal = SIGHUP;
> ...
>
>
> Compilation happens with no probs and when I run "squid -k dns" it
> re-reads the hosts file but it kills childs too. Killing child
> proccesess stop all active transfers and this is something that cannot
> happen.
>
> Can anybody help me find the right function(s) to call so it re-reads
> the hosts file?
>
> Thanks for the attetion...
>
> ------------------------------
> Andre D. Correa, CISSP
> andre.correa (at) pobox.com
> http://andre.hiperlinks.com.br
> Sao Paulo / SP / Brazil
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>
>
Received on Fri Jul 08 2005 - 12:47:03 MDT