What's wrong with using Squid's method for restarting the helpers?
(squid -k reload)
Robert Nickel wrote:
> While sending squidguard a HUP, I found myself staring down a non-responsive proxy
>server. It appears that sending squidguard a HUP when it's being accessed via squid
>is NOT a good idea. I'm not quite sure what the problem is but the cache did not dig
>that pause.
>
> Now as to details, so that nobody else does this on accident, I didn't just HUP one
>of the processes, but rather did the following:
>
> for i in `ps ax|grep squidGuard|awk '{print $1}'`; do kill -HUP $i; done
>
> Which may not have been the greatest of all ideas, but it <seemed to> work. ;-)
>
> Don't know if this can be counted as a bug or if it's just a DEU (Defective End
>User) issue.
>
> Thanks,
> --Robert
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