Re: [squid-users] automate flushing of cache

forgot the reply all.

squid -k check actually yields nothing. does it need to be enabled in
the initial compile?

squid's definitely running.

Thanks
Jim

On 8/7/06, Jim Christy <jim.christy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Henrik,
>
> I want to flush the cache daily to make sure i'm not getting stale
> data from the site i'm caching. I understand squid tries to do this
> automatically. But i've been instructed to make sure it does
> definitely do a full clear-out just before the site's content is
> refreshed. (We're working with the site and will know the time they
> refresh).
>
> > When shutting down Squid you need to monitor the pid to determine when
> > Squid has shut finally down. Can be done by simply running "squid -k
> > check" and checking the return code..
>
> Thanks for this - should help me with my cron. And Thanks to James.
> I'm already checking the ps aux | grep squid - but of course it always
> returns true because the grep is a result itself. The running squid
> process doesn't have it's full path so i can't grep the grep results
> for that either.
>
> But Henrik's squid -k check should do the trick in a while loop.
>
> Thanks both.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> On 8/7/06, Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net> wrote:
> > mån 2006-08-07 klockan 11:56 +0100 skrev Jim Christy:
> >
> > > Wondering if anyone has an automated cache-flushing script which can
> > > be run as a cron job?
> >
> > why?
> >
> > It's maintained automatically. You should not need to flush the cache.
> >
> > > I know the system calls to actually flush the cache, but my problem is
> > > that squid often takes a while to actually shut itself down.
> >
> > When shutting down Squid you need to monitor the pid to determine when
> > Squid has shut finally down. Can be done by simply running "squid -k
> > check" and checking the return code..
> >
> > Regards
> > Henrik
> >
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Received on Mon Aug 07 2006 - 05:37:19 MDT