[squid-users] reloading settings on a regular basis

Hi all,
I hope I'm not beating a dead horse with this one, I wrote a script
that regenerates user lists (acls) based on data in the LDAP if there
was a change since last run.

I run the script every 5 minutes, mid semester that should not cause
too many rewrites of acls but at the start of semesters there will be
times where new acls get written every 5 minutes.
At the moment I did not add a squid reload to the end of the script
because I first wanted to check:

1. Can (potentially) reloading squid (service squid3 reload or
/etc/init.d/squid3 reload) this often have a negative impact? or bad
side effects?
2. Such reloads according to my logic would have to be coordinated
between all processes that may be editing acls, correct?

Thanks,
Eliyahu - אליהו
Received on Sun Sep 23 2012 - 13:52:56 MDT