On 2024-09-23, Rick Rackow <r...@rackow.io> wrote: > Hey Team, > We have the following scenario: we get a list of IPs from an external > service, add them to our squid ACLs via a cronjob and then in the same > cronjob also reload squid. In this scenario it can happen that occasionally > we get some nonsense response from the external service and that lands in the > config, causing the config file to be invalid. Now if we to `systemctl reload > squid` squid crashes on the restart because the config is invalid and > thereafter can’t be restarted without explicitly stating `systemctl start > squid`. > > The question is, has it been considered to validate the config file before > performing the actual reload, so there’s no disruption to squid if there was > a working config beforehand?
That's easy to do from your cronjob: write the new config to a temporary file, check it with "squid -f $filename -k parse", only move into place and reload if ok. _______________________________________________ squid-dev mailing list squid-dev@lists.squid-cache.org https://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-dev
