On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 08:40, Kean Johnston wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am sure, in antiquity, there was a reason for this, but > it has long bothered me that Squid doesn't automatically > disassociate itself and go into the background. Using > nohup on the RunCache script is a hack. For UNIX platforms > at any rate, it is very easy to send a process into the > background. That and a nice squidctl program to start, stop > and query the running status of the daemon would be a > really nice thing to have. Anyone object if I make it so?
It is so: $ squid will start squid, fork into the background and write the pid to a file. $ squid -k reconfigure will restart it $ squid -k shutdown will stop it, and so forth. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt>.
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