On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, denis bonnenfant wrote:
They are not crashing but it simply seems that sending HUP signal to squidGuard is killing squidguard redirectors, so during the lists reloading, redirectors are not availiable and squid crash and restart :
Nov 17 22:35:06 proxy squid[25267]: Too few redirector processes are running
Nov 17 22:35:06 proxy squid[25063]: Squid Parent: child process 25267 exited due to signal 6
2004-11-17 22:35:06 [25272] squidGuard stopped (1100727306.777)
Nov 17 22:35:09 proxy squid[25063]: Squid Parent: child process 25300 started
so it is bad to kill squidguard.
Indeed it is a bad idea to kill redirectors under the feets of Squid, just as it is a good idea to look into cache.log the first thing if one experiences problems..
However, recent Squid-2.5 versions automatically recovers from the above situation in addition to countless number of bugfixes, but a clean reconfigure of the helper is obviously better either by "squid -k reconfigure" restarting the helpers in a controlled manner, or by means documented for the specific helper.
Regards Henrik
