Re: [squid-users] BUG !? swap.state: (13) Permission denied ...

Riccardo Castellani wrote:
> But can I always use "killall -HUP squid" command ? I'm newby on this
> Squid version.
> I killed squid with killall ?!
>

I don't think so. killall does nasty things to the child processes
inside Squid. Best to avoid it.

You can kill -HUP the parent process by itself. Which is the same as
"squid -k shutdown", and passes the skill signal to the squid child
process after some initial cleanup.

Amos

>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amos Jeffries" <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
> To: <squid-users_at_squid-cache.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 11:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] BUG !? swap.state: (13) Permission denied ...
>
>
>> Riccardo Castellani wrote:
>>> I'm using Squid 2.7 Stable in Debian Sarge environment, when I tried
>>> to restart Squid service but process died.
>>> I got this message in cache.log : "swap.state: (13) Permission denied
>>> ..."
>>> First to restart I send killall -HUP squid. What happened ?!
>>
>> You killed Squid before it completed writing and setting ownership
>> details for the new swap.state file.
>>
>> Erase the swap.state file and start Squid again as you normally would.
>> Have some patience this time because the startup may take a long time
>> to regenerate the content of swap.state from on-disk information.
>>
>> Amos
>> --
>> Please be using
>> Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE7 or 3.0.STABLE23
>> Current Beta Squid 3.1.0.16
>

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Please be using
   Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE7 or 3.0.STABLE23
   Current Beta Squid 3.1.0.16