SIGHUP hangs squid ...

According to the doc I should be able to reconfigure squid by sending it
a SIGHUP. However, the cache hangs I can't get an proxy request through.
I'm running on IRIX 5.3 .... (native compiler)

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Received on Mon Jun 03 1996 - 06:05:56 MDT