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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Joe Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Web Caching Appliances and Support

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