Ok...I've never tried it. Might be a way to do it, but as you've
discovered Squid doesn't like you messing with its kids.
Robert Nickel wrote:
> Absolutely nothing. I had read somewhere recently (not sure if it was on the list
>or in the docs) that you can send a HUP to the squidguard processes to unstick them
>or get them to reread the db files.
>
> It's a curiosity is all.
>
> --Robert
>
>
>>>>Joe Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/14/02 02:57PM >>>
>>>>
> 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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