Re: [squid-users] Squid exitin periodicaly ( Preparing for shut down after )

> (Amos) Sorry did not reply to list Ignore..
>
> I wish SLES10 was more up to date on a few packages!!
>
> I can't find anythin that may be shutting down squid, certainly there
> seems to
> be no cron jobs and the issues are happeing at aproximatly 22 minuet
> intervals
> which is not consistent with a cron schedule.
>
> It's very odd, and been hapenig for a while but we had not noticed.
>
> I may just try a full restart on the system.
>
> Thanks
>
> Rob

You could also check what type of controls you have around the 'manager'
ACL in squid.conf. Every visitor with an allow line before the "deny
manager" line may have the option to restart Squid with an HTTP request.

Amos

>
>
>
> twinturbo_at_f2s.com wrote:
>> Squid 2.5STABLE12 on SLES10
>>
>> I know this is quite an old version but it's on our production machine.
>>
>
> Yes. Please bug SLES about using a newer release.
>
>
>> Anyway we have a strange issue where squid seems to be shunting down
>> every 22
>> minuets or so, the logs says Preparing for shut down after XXX
>> requests.
>>
>> Now every minuet we do a "squid -k reconfigure" as we run squidGuard and
>> it's
>> config can change all the time. This has never seemed to be a problem in
>> the
>> past.
>>
>> I am building up a fresh machine to take over but would like to get this
>> one
>> working properly too.
>>
>> So far I have stoped the store.log being written and got the other logs
> rotating
>> more than once a day to keep them small.
>>
>> I was previously getting errors about there being to few redirectors so
>> I
> upped
>> that to 30, I have now set it back down to 10 to see what happens.
>>
>> Rob
>
> "Preparing for shut down after XXX requests" occurs when Squid receives
> its proper shutdown signal. A clean/graceful shutdown proceeds to follow.
>
> Amos
> --
> Please be using
> Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE6 or 3.0.STABLE13
> Current Beta Squid 3.1.0.6
>
>
>
Received on Mon Mar 16 2009 - 22:59:32 MDT