Re: [squid-users] Cache issue

Tarak Ranjan wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 23:56 +1300, Amos Jeffries wrote:
>> Tarak Ranjan wrote:
>>> Hi Friends,
>>> i have one issue regarding squid cache. i'm clearing the cache
>> First problem: why are you doing this?
>> What has gone so massively wrong that its needed?
>>
>>> squid -k shutdown
>>> cd /cache
>>> rm -rf *
>> Risky. Safer to go: rm -rf /cache/*
>>
>> Or other options in:
>> http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/ClearingTheCache
>>
>>> squid -z
>>> squid -k start
>> -k start has no meaning to squid, if it ever did.
>>
>>> but the issue is when i'm starting squid the cache is as it is same,
>>> before that i confirmed in /cache dir, that was empty .
>>>
>>> what could be the issue....
>> indeed what are you trying to say?
>> Please choose your words with careful grammar so that we can understand
>> the problem.
>
> my query was after deleting all the contents under /cache, when i'm
> starting the squid, the whole old cache is coming back under /cache

As in all the same files etc?
"Squid -z" builds the /cache/00/00/* directories, state files etc which
can look the same at first glance.

If anything else is appearing before squid starts to serve requests you
have a problem with your OS doing more than it should.

Amos

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